WALKING IS BEST EXERCISE FOR MOST PEOPLE

When it comes to healthy feet, the adage “use it, or lose it” is sage advice, according to Khurram H. Khan, DPM, chairman of the Department of Podiatric Medicine at Temple University. If you are not on your feet regularly, you will lose muscle and bone strength. “We always tell patients, we want you to be active,” Dr. Khan said. 

 

Dr. Khurram Khan

 

“Walking is probably the best exercise for most people, young and old. Bone grows along stress lines. So, wherever there is stress, the bone will grow or be maintained. We want patients to walk. We want them to maintain the calcium definition that comes from ambulation,” says Dr. Khan.

 

Source: Alicia Colombo, Philadelphia Corporation for Aging [7/3/23]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News