Why walking to work may be better for you than a casual stroll

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Walking with a purpose -- especially walking to get to work -- makes people walk faster and consider themselves to be healthier, a new study has found. The study found that walking for different reasons yielded different levels of self-rated health. People who walked primarily to places like work and the grocery store from their homes, for example, reported better health than people who walked mostly for leisure.

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