Walking can help keep your heart healthy and strong. It’s also good for your brain. Research has shown that walking briskly for two hours every week can help boost a person’s mood and reduce symptoms ...

The simple act of walking backwards, though rarely practiced in daily life, might offer unexpectedly powerful benefits for brain health. This unconventional movement pattern challenges the brain in ...

A specific type of exercise known as "Japanese Walking," said to add years to your life, is gaining momentum worldwide with fitness newbies and enthusiasts. Japanese Walking gets its name from its ...

‘Japanese walking,’ also called interval walking, involves alternating between fast and slow paces. This name originated from a 2007 study by Japanese researchers that suggested this workout can lower ...

Evidence that nature is good for you continues to mount, as a new study that compared nature walkers with urban walkers found that folks in the former group were better able to rest their brains. The ...

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Most people walk to relax. I came to Borneo to let the ground fight back. This morning, outside Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, my boots slipped on a tangle of wet roots. The air smelled of earth and rain. A ...

Growing evidence suggests that lifestyle interventions such as walking may help slow cognitive decline in individuals with the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele, who have a genetically higher risk of ...

Walking just a bit faster could be the key to aging well. Researchers found that older adults who upped their walking pace by just 14 steps per minute significantly improved their physical ...

If you’ve ever thought daily walks with a dog would double up as a good workout, Olli the Shih Tzu is here to prove otherwise in this Instagram video. His owner sets out expecting a brisk stroll but ...