Walking Summit - Walking and Health Panel Highlights

In this panel discussion, moderated by Kaiser Permanente's Bob Sallis, MD, two physicians - Doug Van Zoeren, from Kaiser Permanente in Washington, D.C., and Karim Khan, from the University of British Columbia - discuss both the benefits of walking and the tremendous health challenges posed in the United States by low fitness. For more, go to the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health's blog at www.centerfortotalhealth.org/blog, and Every Body Walk! at www.everybodywalk.org.

[@PInk77W1]

Walking is like running for the ave person. We can’t all be Olympic athletes at 50.yrs old
But we can all go for a walk. Yesterday I had a flight to catch. I live 8miles from the airport. I walked to the airport. I’m 57

[@meghamishra3487]

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[@markcarter3653]

I walked 19 miles in 6 hours to Coney Island from my house near Yankee Stadium last month, a week before my 52nd birthday.

[@PInk77W1]

@@markcarter3653 that is really good.
I’m 60 and I walk 3hrs in the hot Texas sun.
Although right now I’m in Los Angeles and riding my bicycle from San Francisco to San Diego

[@ministerjap8910]

But plenty of people work hard everyday and still get sick and die. So how???

[@lynx9704]

It's the animal products.

[@markcarter3653]

@@lynx9704 I agree with you.