Best Answer: Walking a mile a day would improve your general cardiovascular health. It would give you more stamina and endurance. It would help your resistance to disease. It would build muscle mass in your legs.
A summary of these methods: 1  Cepheid variable stars and their cousins the RR Lyrae stars are the primary distance indicators in the galaxy and the local group. 2  They pulsate radially (basically at the sound speed in the envelope of the star) with a period inversely proportional to the square root of the density.
We can then determine how far away the galaxy is by observing the brightness of the stars. Such stars can help us measure the distance to galaxies 300 million light years away.