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| ## What is walking? | ## What is walking? |
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| Walking is an enjoyable leisure activity that’s great for getting you moving and bringing you into contact with [nature](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/lowimpact-topic/nature_awareness/), with all its attendant benefits. It’s also the most natural form of transportation and one we’re perfectly designed to do (as opposed to sitting down all day). However, while a ramble in the country is one of our favourite free-time activities, the need to walk on a daily basis has been increasingly written out of today’s automated, convenient world, with serious consequences for public health, the environment and local communities. | Walking is an enjoyable leisure activity that’s great for getting you moving and bringing you into contact with [nature](/ntaw/nature_awareness), with all its attendant benefits. It’s also the most natural form of transportation and one we’re perfectly designed to do (as opposed to sitting down all day). However, while a ramble in the country is one of our favourite free-time activities, the need to walk on a daily basis has been increasingly written out of today’s automated, convenient world, with serious consequences for public health, the environment and local communities. |
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| | _Living Streets produced this video to encourage kids to walk to school_ |
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| _Living Streets produced this video to encourage kids to walk to school_ | |
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| However, while walking for pleasure is in robust health, in the urban environment and our daily lives it’s a very different story. UK charity Living Streets estimates that there has been a 30% decrease in the number of walking trips per person per year since 1995. Incredibly, the [2014 National Travel Survey](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/457752/nts2014-01.pdf) revealed that over one in five people hadn’t walked for 20 minutes(!) at all within the last year. With sedentary lifestyles presenting one of the greatest risks to health in the developed world, it isn’t hard to see that it would be good if this decline were reversed. | However, while walking for pleasure is in robust health, in the urban environment and our daily lives it’s a very different story. UK charity Living Streets estimates that there has been a 30% decrease in the number of walking trips per person per year since 1995. Incredibly, the [2014 National Travel Survey](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/457752/nts2014-01.pdf) revealed that over one in five people hadn’t walked for 20 minutes(!) at all within the last year. With sedentary lifestyles presenting one of the greatest risks to health in the developed world, it isn’t hard to see that it would be good if this decline were reversed. |