Health Benefits of Walking are so Huge, Let's Make Sure Everyone Can Do It

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2015

There is mounting evidence that a daily walk helps prevent a host of serious diseases and that evidence is beginning to influence debates about health care, community vitality, poverty, race and opportunity. “The health benefits of walking are so overwhelming that to deny access to that is a violation of fundamental human rights,” declared Robert A. Bullard, dean of the School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, in a keynote at the Second National Walking Summit held this past fall in Washington, D.C.