How useful are walks with the dog?

American cardiologists have experimentally confirmed what was perceived for decades as a matter of course. The athletic fit and tanned face of a man running along the path or riding a bicycle, in the company of a gambling dog striving to overtake the owner, always pleased the look of the oncoming pedestrians. If to judge by a fine kind of the majority of "dogsmen" with health at them that's all right. The researchers measured blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and a number of other parameters that determined the body's physical condition among dog owners, and concluded that dog breeders are less likely to have cardiovascular disease and hypertension than non-domesticated pets. In our time, one of the unfavorable factors that undermine health from a young age is hypodynamia. For all the fussiness of office work, it's still one of the options for a sedentary lifestyle, to which even constant stressful situations are added. Many are forced to attend fitness clubs or gyms to drive away the accumulating fat and at least somehow improve their vitality. Curious figures led employees of the company Bob Martin. Their respondents were five thousand people, including three thousand owners of dogs. Both those and others evaluated their own efforts to maintain a normal physical form. It turns out that not all of these activities are fun, only 16% confirmed that visits to the gym give them satisfaction. Almost 70% perceive them as an everyday routine - boring and uninteresting. But the "dog lovers" adore to walk with their pets, their 86% of the total, only for 22% of the doggie's walking is a tedious "obligatory", but you will not escape. 60% of dog breeders will never cancel a walk with their tailed friend. Those who decided to maintain their tone on the simulators, but do it without desire, and for the sake of fashion trends, are ready to go on self-deception for the sake of justification in their own eyes and use any excuse to skip training or jogging. In this, as many as 46% of respondents (almost half!) Apologized. For such mountain athletes, by their own admission, it is better to have a dog than pay for visiting gyms. After all, walks with a dog are the same physical loads, but regular.

The need to withdraw a dog has an important disciplining value for its owner. The dog does not explain that it is necessary to suffer, here the master is obliged to adhere to the same established rules. But this is a big plus for him. You should walk regularly, not paying attention to bad weather. But even thirty-minute walks with a dog in the rain or frost will thank you with increased tone and strengthened immunity.

The walking of the animal (it is still necessary to figure out who walks whom - this is the traditional joke of the "dogman") definitely reduces the risk of obesity among their owners, the morning and evening "promenade" in the fresh air helps obese people to throw a few extra pounds. Some studies have shown that dog breeders in the blood have a much lower level of triglyceride fats than those who do not have a dog.

Evening walks before bedtime doctors recommended hundreds of years ago, they contribute to strengthening the nervous system and have a positive effect on sleep. Having walked well with his pet in the evening, the owner does not suffer from insomnia. Even daytime stresses do not seem so nightmarish, that is, the dog helped to relax, relieved the negative and gave a charge of positive energy.

The picture is impressive, but the researchers recommend not to succumb to euphoria, that, say, a means is found to improve the physical form. Dr. G. Levin from the College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, warns that the positive effect of walks with a tailed friend comes from a number of factors. But in any case it is connected with an active way of life and with love for the animal itself. As a scientist sneers, you should not expect that if you get a cat or a dog, you immediately become healthier, and now you can sit comfortably on the couch, eat crisps and smoke cigarettes.