Win with Wellness walking event at WSCC

VICTORY TWP. — Win with Wellness is sponsoring a walking event at West Shore Community College on Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 6 p.m.  The event is free and open to the public.  Participants can choose from two courses, one along campus roads and one on the more challenging 3.1-mile cross country trail. Participants should meet in the upper parking lot near the WSCC Recreation Center.

Walking is a great way to get outside and get moving.  It’s a low-impact exercise that can ease you into a higher level of fitness and health.  Walking can help you achieve a number of important health benefits such as lowering bad cholesterol, raising good cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, reducing the risk of or managing type 2 diabetes, managing weight, improving moods and staying strong and fit.