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Study finds people walk faster, report being healthier, when they walk with a purpose – Medical Xpress
Walking with a purpose—especially walking to get to work—makes people walk faster and consider themselves to be healthier, a new study has found.
Walking with a purposeespecially walking to get to workmakes people walk faster and consider themselves to be healthier, a new study has found.
The study, published online earlier this month in the Journal of Transport and Health, found that walking for different reasons yielded different levels of self-rated health. People who walked primarily to places like work and the grocery store from their homes, for example, reported better health than people who walked mostly for leisure.
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