As some of you may know, Hoda Kotb just made a big move with her daughters, Hope and Haley. She decided to move them out of New York City and into the surrounding suburbs.
She previously explained how she wanted to give her kids that classic experience of growing up and being able to play outside…
I want my kids to feel grass on their feet, and play in the yard, and ride bikes down the street, and run up and down the stairs. I just see that life for them in this perfect house in this beautiful little town where I know they’ll be able to blossom into beautiful, independent, strong women.
Another benefit? Toot walks. On a recent episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the 60-year-old host revealed she takes her daughters on “toot walks” after eating dinner.
By the way, can I tell you something? You know what we started doing, by the way, now that we started living in the suburbs? We started going on — I’m not going to use the word — but ‘toot’ walks after dinner. Y’all should try it. It’s great.
Jenna seemed a little shocked by this, “Is that because everybody needs to every night after dinner?” she asked.
It’s worth noting that doctors actually encourage these toot walks. Dr. Matthew Kamper told PEOPLE the following…
After you have a meal, you have what’s called the gastrocolic reflex. So whenever you put things in your mouth and you eat and you swallow, it stimulates your gut to move things forward. So that’s going stimulate things to empty from your stomach and your small intestine and your colon. The colon is where most of the bacteria is. It makes the gas.
Apparently, walking can release some of that gastric pressure!
