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Smart living, healthy aging
From the research world comes more incentive to stay active — or become so — as you age.
From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University comes “preliminary evidence” that keeping your brain sharp can help you physically. Einstein researchers took a group of 20 “frail” seniors (age 70 or older who walk less [...]
Raleigh greenway’s march to 100 miles: A progress report
23. August 2010
I had just said hello to Vic Lebsock when the inevitable happened: A woman walked up and wanted to know the status of a greenway planned through her neighborhood, a greenway years from construction, she knew, but she just had to know the latest. Lebsock excused himself and dutifully walked the woman over to an [...]
Continue reading...Avoid The Big One, walk to school
17. August 2010
Now kids can tell their teachers that if they don’t get outside to play tetherball or romp on the jungle gym, they could have a heart attack!
This helpful bit of fact-based guiltsuasion comes from a just-released study from the University of Buffalo that found that kids who walk to school and get other kinds of [...]
Ciclovia hits the Bull City
18. May 2010
The next time you hear someone badmouth all the New Yorkers here, invoke the name of Jessalee Landfried. She’s the reason we’ll get to ride our bikes, free of motorized traffic, over a mile-long loop of downtown Durham streets Sunday afternoon, and she’s only lived here since September.
Think about that. In less than nine months, [...]
Hot flash! Women of a certain age can stay fit
5. May 2010
I wrote the following post originally for the Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer; It appeared in both papers yesterday, May 4. A related article, on where to find the classes mentioned, can be found here.
Hot flashes. Headaches. Hair growing where it shouldn’t and not where it should. A tummy that won’t [...]
Walk@Lunch: Exercise and Explore
26. April 2010
Our coverage of Walk@Lunch Day started March 23 with a heads up, resumed last week with a look at why you should walk over your lunch hour, picked back up yesterday with a look at the logistics of taking a walk at lunch, and continues today with a reminder that walking at lunch shouldn’t just [...]
Continue reading...Walk@Lunch: Making the most of your 30-minute escape
25. April 2010
OK, it’s settled: This coming week, instead of working through lunch at your desk or going out with the gang for a $4.95 all-you-can-eat-but-not-necessarily-digest buffet, you’re going to observe National Walk@Lunch Week and take a walk. (Technically, it’s National Walk@Lunch Day, but the observance deserves at least a week.)
We’ve already gone over what National Walk@Lunch [...]
Next week: Walk @ lunch
22. April 2010
Here’s a radical proposal for the workweek ahead: Let’s band together and take back the lunch hour. And once we get it back, let’s put it to good use.
Let’s take a walk.
A fact that will surprise few of you: In 2006, KFC — the fried chicken people — conducted a survey of working America’s lunchtime [...]
Let Mother Earth move you this weekend
16. April 2010
While fitness and health experts would like you to get an hour’s exercise a day, they’ll tell you that, above all, the key thing is to just move. With that in mind, here are a number of Earth Day “just move” events this weekend. (Yes, technically Earth Day isn’t until Thursday. But Thursday doesn’t fall [...]
Continue reading...If you can walk, you can run
31. March 2010
I wrote the following for the Charlotte Observer, where it appeared on March 23, and in Raleigh’s The News & Observer, where it ran March 30.
For the first 37 years of her life, becoming a die-hard runner wasn’t on Carol Gore’s bucket list.
“I never had a desire to start running,” says Gore, who lives [...]
24. August 2010
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