Walk. Or Die. Soon.

Not incorporating or avoiding walking in your everyday life will result in a higher likelihood of cancer, heart disease and attack, harmful weight-gain, higher bad cholesterol, and earlier death.

Exercising regularly, however light a walk may seem, is an essential weapon to be used in the fight against these illnesses, as it WILL help lower insulin (avoiding the risk of diabetes), improve circulation and respiration, encourage digestion, fortify your immune system and so on.

Many essential aspects of our everyday lives in this contemporary era assist in our avoiding our using walking as our primary mode of transportation. One of the main culprits is the advent of the automobile, which especially in America, has become the chief influencing factor in how we design, plan and build our towns and cities. Suburban lifestyle is now focused on the car and leaves much distance between our homes, workplaces, sources of food, recreation, society and each other in general. If we only would reevaluate this mode of transportation as an alternative as opposed to the more desirable (now nearly required) way to get from A to B.

Protesting, speaking with and getting involved with our Government and political leaders to make this change in our culture and society, showing the health, economic and environmental benefits to designing our cities and towns around the foot would be the most lasting, effective and comprehensive way to solve the problem of our not walking.

Simply prioritizing walking instead of the car is the most essential and personal way to help change your own life and vitality.