FEW people in America walk to work. Most of us drive to the supermarket. But more older people these days are looking for a community where they can enjoy a full life without a car. Ben Brown and his wife, Christine, say they weren’t thinking about retirement when they moved to Franklin, N.C., a small,…
Date: November 17, 2016 Source: University of Basel Summary: We humans walk with our feet. This is true, but not entirely. Walking, as part of locomotion, is a coordinated whole-body movement that involves both the arms and legs. Researchers have identified different subpopulations of neurons in the spinal cord with long projections. These results show…
In 1999, officials in Vienna, Austria, asked residents of the city’s ninth district how often and why they used public transportation. “Most of the men filled out the questionnaire in less than five minutes,” says Ursula Bauer, one of the city administrators tasked with carrying out the survey. “But the women couldn’t stop writing.” The…
A tooth belonging to a dog dating back 7,500 years has been discovered It was found in the grounds of a nursing home just a mile from Stonehenge Researchers say it points to the early connections between man and dog Taking the dog for a walk seems like a tradition as old as time itself….
What if you’re not the type of person who’s willing to go to the gym every day? What if you’re not into running, or you have a condition that prevents you from doing it? If you want to be physically active there’s always a way, and the easiest thing you can do to start is walking. Physical…
Exercise may aid in weight control and help to fend off diabetes by improving the ability of fat cells to burn calories, a new study reports. It may do this in part by boosting levels of a hormone called irisin, which is produced during exercise and which may help to turn ordinary white fat into…
In this election season, can we all agree on one thing? Walking is good. I have yet to see a study that suggests that walking is bad…unless of course, you have a bleeding foot, a broken leg or a kitten strapped to your foot. Many studies have shown the benefits of walking such as preventing…
As decades of research and public health messaging attest, the breathtaking lack of exercise we get as a society has become a matter of life and death. A lack of fitness currently lags behind only smoking as a risk factor for predicting if a person will die early. A sedentary life raises a person’s risk…
Simone de Beauvoir started hiking in 1931, when she was in her early 20s and assigned to Marseille to teach secondary school. She wrote in her memoir “The Prime of Life” that she at first viewed her post with dread. It was 482 miles from Paris, from her friends and from Jean-Paul Sartre, her lover….
Every summer for the past 15 years, Paris has closed a portion of its central riverbank highway to cars. For six weeks, the Georges Pompidou Expressway is transformed into a temporary waterfront park. There’s no swimming in the Seine or topless sunbathing—so it’s not your classic French beach experience—but there are deck chairs, games, food…