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Daily Self-Care Every Body Walk Campaign Aims for Healthier Americans
Walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week, is the first step toward better health for every body type, according to Kaiser Permanente, a leading health plan provider spearheading the na- tion’s new Every Body Walk! awareness campaign. This simple, take-charge message comes in the wake of an an- nual national medical bill exceeding $2.5 trillion, with about 80 percent of it spent on treating chronic condi- tions that can be prevented or treated by regular walking, according to Dr. Bob Sallis, a family physician with the Southern California Permanente Medi- cal Group. “Walking is an excellent form of
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Most Walkable Cities
This year’s best Walk-Friendly Communities, recognized less for being organically hospitable and more for es- tablishing commendable policies that encourage safe, accessible and comfortable walking are: Seattle, Washing- ton; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Arlington and Charlottesville, Virginia; Hoboken, New Jersey; Santa Barbara, California; and Decatur, Georgia. Next best include Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Flagstaff, Arizona; and Wilson- ville, Oregon. Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (
BicyclingInfo.org) of the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, and the Federal Highway Administration
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exercise for everyone, and for those with conditions like diabetes, asthma, heart disease and depression, a regular walking regimen has the added benefit of helping to manage these diseases [and conditions],” advises Sallis. “I’m a strong believer in the power of walking, and that’s why I literally prescribe it to my patients as frontline medicine—often in place of medications.”
Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Surgeon
General’s landmark Physical Activ- ity and Health report con-
cluded that
Ameri- cans’ seden- tary life- style is a primary factor in more
than 200,000 deaths a year. Cur- rently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that nearly 70 percent of American adults ages 20 and older are overweight or obese; some 72 million are medically obese. Seventeen percent of U.S. youths ages two to 19 are obese, as well. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develop- ment projects that within a decade, three out of four Americans will be overweight or obese, unless we get moving. Find motivational videos, health information, walking maps, walking groups and personal stories at
EveryBodyWalk.org.
July 7 is National Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day
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