Health Insight: Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it
KEITH DIAZ, associate professor of behavioural medicine at Colombia University, looks – in an article on The Conversation – at what a new study shows about counter-acting the impacts of prolonged sitting…
Health Insight: Seven reasons Nordic walking is better for you than the normal kind
LINDSAY BOTTOMS, a reader in exercise and health physiology at the University of Hertfordshire, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at why walking with poles is good for you…
Pope still working on meeting Russian Orthodox Patriarch
Aboard the papal plane AP Pope Francis said Sunday he was still working on arranging a meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, despite that leader’s seeming justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and said he wouldn’t rule out travelling to the region if it would help. Speaking to reporters en route home […]
A Sustainable Life: Five walks to save the world – how ‘psychogeography’ can help you confront the climate crisis
PHILIPPA HOLLOWAY, academic and author of ‘The Half-life of Snails’, says action on climate change can start with something as simple as a walk…
Health Insight: Why 7,000 steps a day is the new 10,000 steps a day
In an article first published on The Conversation, LINDSAY BOTTOMS, a Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire, looks at what the latest research says about how many steps we should take each day…
Health Insight: Walking workouts are great for heart, bone, and muscle health – and almost everyone can do it
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRADLEY ELLIOTT, a senior lecturer in physiology at the University of Westminster, looks at the benefits of walking…
Intention can turn any lockdown walk into pilgrimage, urges British Pilgrimage Trust
RNS You may be able to point to the exact moment this week or the next when the COVID-19 pandemic upended your everyday life. Put more succinctly: when taking a daily walk became for many of us a great escape, a way to get some fresh air and movement. Some have made lockdown walks an institution: “walktail” parties in […]
British volunteers uncover 80,000 kilometres in missing footpaths
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Walking enthusiasts have uncovered nearly 80,000 kilometres of footpaths that are missing from official maps in England and Wales, putting them at risk of being lost forever, a charity said on Monday. The historic paths, which include a favourite walk described by writer Virginia Woolf in her diaries, were identified by […]
“Pavement wars” hit cities as COVID-19 distancing pits joggers against dogs
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation A stroll in the park has turned into a battle for space among residents of crowded urban areas, as rules on distancing from others to stop coronavirus spreading kick in. With lockdowns or restrictions on movement imposed in hundreds of cities, tempers are running short in crowded green spaces, with panting, […]
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: WALKING IN THE LIGHT
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at what Paul writes about the call for Christians to walk a different path in Ephesians, chapter four…