• Provide encouraging words of support during weekly phone calls.
• Join in on walks and events to increase your daily steps.
• Remind you of why you want to walk more when you find yourself skipping walks.
• Wear a pedometer as well and compare steps at the end of each day. Make it a friendly competition to see who walks more!

• Over time, regular walking can help strengthen your heart and prevent future health problems.

• Along with other healthy lifestyle changes, regular walking can lower your risk of having another stroke.

• Walking can be an important part of managing your diabetes. Walking is a great way to regulate your blood sugar levels.

• Walking can improve your heart and lung fitness, which can help prevent asthmatic symptoms, such as wheezing or difficulty breathing, in the future.

• Walking is a great form of weight-bearing exercise that can help strengthen your bones, increase bone density and prevent you from falling and getting hurt.

• Research has shown that you can decrease mental stress, decrease depression, and improve your overall mood through regular walking.

• Pre-diabetes (Impaired Glucose Tolerance) does not have to become diabetes. Walking can help you lose excess weight, which helps your body use glucose more effectively.

• When you're in pain, exercise is probably the last thing on your mind. However, walking can help ease chronic pain. Walking will help you build strength, increase your flexibility and prompt your body to release endorphins -- all which can reduce your pain.

• Walking can be a great way for you to control your blood pressure. Walking strengthens the heart so it can pump more blood with less effort and with less pressure on the arteries.

• You told us you have high cholesterol. Walking is a great way to increase your HDL (good) cholesterol and lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol.

• 1 in 9 adults have kidney disease and those people, like you, greatly benefit from regular exercise. Walking will help control your blood pressure, lower your level of blood fats, and help control your body weight, which will help reduce the strain on your kidneys.

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• Walking can slow aging, burn body fat, reduce stress, help control your appetite, raise your metobolism, and increase your energy.

• On average, every minute of walking can extend your life by 1 ½ to 2 minutes.

• Walking an extra 20 minutes each day can burn off 7 pounds of body fat per year.

• Walking has numerous other benefits - including improving circulation, self-esteem, and your posture.

• Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the United States. Regular walking can help lower your risk.

• Heart disease is the #1 killer of men in the United States. Regular walking can help lower your risk.

• Regular walking is a great way to prevent diabetes.

• Walking is a great way to reduce the feeling of being tired. When you get into a walking routine, you'll begin to notice that you sleep better at night and are less tired during the day.

• Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. The most common cancers are lung, breast, prostate, and colon. Physical activity is proven to have cancer-protective effects.

• Walkers live longer. Walking can help prevent hip fractures, keep you flexible, and keep your mind clearer into old age.

• Walkers live longer. Having a regular walking schedule can actually add years to your life.

• Regular exercise has shown to reduce the number of episodes of the common cold each year. That means spending less time sick in bed!

• As someone who is overweight, you are at an increased risk of having health problems. Walking can help you prevent heart disease by strengthening your heart muscle. And since you told us that you're trying to lose weight, walking can be a good way to burn off some extra calories.

• As someone who is overweight, you are at an increased risk of having health problems. Walking can help you prevent heart disease by strengthening your heart muscle. Walking has also been proven to reduce the risk of diabetes due to excess weight.

• Walking is a great way to manage your weight. Combined with healthy eating, physical activity is key to long-lasting weight control. Keeping your weight within healthy limits can lower your risk for heart disease, stroke, sleep apnea, and osteoarthritis.

• Walking is a good way to manage your weight. Combined with healthy eating, physical activity is key to long-lasting weight control.

• High cholesterol and blood pressure play a major role in the development of heart disease. Regular walking can help control these and lower your risk of heart disease. This is important to keep in mind with your family history of heart disease.

• Even though someone in your family has diabetes, you can lower your risk for it by regularly walking. Exercise can help keep your weight down (being overweight is one of the biggest risk factors for developing adult-onset diabetes) and control blood sugar levels.

• High cholesterol is part of your family's health history. If your family has a regular pattern of early heart disease (before age 55 in a man and before age 65 in a woman), it may mean that people in your family have an inherited tendency for high cholesterol levels. Even with this risk, you can control your overall risk of high cholesterol by increasing your daily steps.

• Research has shown that walking can also help prevent future health problems, such as arthritis.

• Research has shown that walking can also help prevent future health problems, such as osteoporosis.

• Research has shown that walking can also help prevent future health problems, such as high blood pressure.

• Research has shown that walking can also help prevent future health problems, including those associated with getting older, such as arthritis and osteoporosis.

• People your age typically don't exercise that often. Exercise can improve your ability to be independent. Active people over the age of 50 have been found to be 20% to 50% less likely to lose their independence over time.