Walk your way to better health.
A more active lifestyle helps prevent chronic disease, extend your life, and even lowers your risk of dementia. Step out for a walk – outdoors or indoors – and find out how easy it is to get active. Half an hour of brisk walking twice a day is enough to start healthy changes in your life — for free.
- Get started walking
Tips for getting started, success stories, and a free progress tracker from Let's Go Walkin' Mississippi
More steps you can take today:
- Get Started Getting Active
Tips and plans to get you from the couch to the pavement - Walk to School
Making walking to school a safe and healthy alternative to driving - Move to Learn
A state initiative to improve academic performance by increasing physical activity
More steps to better health:
MSDH supports the Million Hearts initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
