Fitness

Wanted: Easy access to walking areas for inactive Americans

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 15th, 2003

Despite its billing as "today's best buy in public health," walking is far from an American way of life. But making areas for physical activity more accessible may be one way to get more people on the move, new research suggests.

Those who say they have convenient places to walk or get other forms of exercise are also the ones mostly likely to be physically active, according to reports in the American Journal of Health Promotion and the American Journal of Public Health.

For instance, Georgia residents who said they had a safe, convenient place to walk for exercise were those most likely to meet the current daily guidelines for physical...

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