This has an interesting wrinkle on the walking for health debate. The author tracked his miles covered using a phone app and found our he walked a lot, but not very far.

I live in Manhattan and walk just about everywhere I go. I walk to work, the grocery store, my son's day care, most errands, out to dinner, plus other regular and infrequent places I go. Since we (unnecessarily and counter-productively) label people by their transport modes, I am a Walker.

http://davidaking.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-walk-lot-i-just-dont-walk-much.html

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