Its reported that walking 4,000 steps a day will have a beneficial effect on health.
For numbers, postal workers for example, this will be easily achieved during their working day. Others in sedentary occupations may find that a walk to the pub and back helps.
However the best way to achieve and surpass the 4,000 steps is collectively.
The long march of everyman and woman to equality and liberation remains a powerful radical symbol.
There is for example a protest march at the Tory Conference in Manchester in early October.
However that is a way off. One interim measure might be to join the slow walking protests of Just Stop Oil. They have been partially outlawed by Suella Braverman while Keir Starmer finds them ‘contemptible’.
That rather suggests that they are good for both physical and mental health
What made me laugh about that article was that the byline said it would reduce the chances of death. Someone ought to break it to the journalist that the chances of death will always be 100%!
Yes, that’s always amused me too.
Gill