A Healthy Start

Year after year, we resolve to get fit and, increasingly, go green. But studies suggest lasting change requires a bit more specificity than resolutions like "drive less" or "exercise more." To get started: 1. Make a list of short daily or weekly car trips. In the United States, one in four trips is a mile or less. 2. Identify walkable trips on this list that add up to at least 28 miles a week (go farther if you plan to bike). Research shows that people who maintain weight loss burn calories equivalent to this amount of activity. And cutting four miles from daily driving trims about 1,600 pounds of greenhouse-gas emissions annually.

Comments

[Bob Egbert]

In October 1998 I made a resolution to change a major part of my life for my own health & the health of the environment. I started walking to work and am still at it. It's been a great 10 years. My local paper (The Roanoke Times) did a story about it in April 2006. The web address for it is:

http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/soundslides/hiker/gallery.html

[Hypnotherapy London]

Health professionals such as myself can conversely be very people who don't look after themselves enough whilst advising others about how to look after their health. My goal is to remedy that now.