The ten-minute walk after dinner
A short, easy stroll helps your body handle the meal you just ate.
When you eat, your blood sugar rises. Working muscles pull sugar out of the blood, so moving soon after a meal softens that rise.
You don't need a workout. A 2022 review of studies found that even two to five minutes of light walking after eating lowered the blood-sugar peak compared with sitting. Ten minutes is a comfortable, repeatable target.
It's also one of the simplest ways to add movement to a day mostly spent at a desk, and it makes a natural pause between dinner and the evening.
Try this
- Walk within 30 minutes of finishing your main meal.
- Go at a pace where you can still talk easily.
- Invite whoever you ate with.
General information, not personal medical advice. If something worries you, talk to your doctor. In an emergency in Bulgaria or the EU, call 112.