By Daniel Engber
Slate
NEW YORK — If you’re a runner, you might have noticed this surprising headline from the April 5 edition of the Guardian: “Brisk walk healthier than running — scientists.” Or maybe you saw this one, which ran in Health magazine the very same day: “Want to lose weight? Then run, don’t walk: Study.”
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DETROIT — Loretta Moore looked at herself in the mirror one morning and didn’t like what she saw.
“I was ridiculously overweight,” Moore said. “I couldn’t get into most of my clothes anymore.”
Standing 5-feet-4, Moore weighed 252 pounds.
That image was all it took for Moore, 56, of Detroit to start walking regularly.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Margie Warden is walking.
It’s 4:45 a.m., and even some of the birds aren’t up yet, but she’s walking. She’s 70 years old and sweating through a gray shirt as she trudges up a long hill in the dark. She’ll walk 6 miles on the grounds of Kansas City Kansas Community College before the sun comes up. Ten years from now —...
October is National Walking Month, which means you are encouraged to give your vehicle a rest as much as you can bear.
Why do we need a designated month to put one foot in front of the other? On average, experts say, we take a fraction of the recommended 10,000 steps per day.
So as a nudge, here is a reminder of what walking...
MINNEAPOLIS — When you name your protest march “SlutWalk,” you’re going to get attention. When some marchers dress in hot pants and fishnet stockings, you’re bound to get a little more.
That’s part of the idea behind the SlutWalk phenomenon, coming to Minneapolis on Saturday. Waving signs like “My dress is not a ’yes,”’ women in various...
