Quotes About Ambulation

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The more or less universal belief that we should all walk ten thousand steps a day—that's about five miles—is not a bad idea, but it has no special basis in science. Clearly, any ambulation is likely to be beneficial, but the notion that there is a universal magic number of steps that will give us health and longevity is a myth. The ten-thousand-step idea is often attributed to a single study done in Japan in the 1960s, though it appears that also may be a myth.

They had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble.