Drink and walk to live healthy

You may blame me for choosing the 2 options to live healthy that are close to my heart. While accepting that I’m indeed choosy, let me say that drinking alcohol is still a big no-no in most Indian households. My mother, for example, can never accept that alcohol can ever do anything good. To her, alcohol and alcoholism are but 2 inseparable twins.

But why only blame my mother? Many in 30s and 40s surprisingly hold the same view, and some even cast alcohol-takers to the dustbin of nuisance. Those in 20s are fruits of new generation, and so there’s a greater amount of acceptability of alcohols among them.

Not so, walking. I’m a late joiner to early-morning walking brigade. Earlier, it was a struggle getting rid of comfort of bed. Now the situation is better. Tell you what? I enjoy my morning jig. Does it help? You bet. [Picture source]

For those who haven’t yet come to terms with either drinking or walking or both, here are a couple of excerpts to ponder over:

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in the US have found that healthy men who drink moderate amounts of alcohol daily have a lower risk of heart attack than healthy men who do not drink at all.

It has been shown that just a 30-minute walk can increase levels of leucocytes, which are part of the family of immune cells that fight infection.