Walk for Your Life! Restoring Neighborhood Walkways to Enhance Community Life, Improve Street Safety and Reduce Obesity

Demers, Marie

ISBN 10: 1890612499 / ISBN 13: 9781890612498

Published by Vital Health Publishing, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walk for Your Life! Restoring Neighborhood Walkways to Enhance Community Life, Improve Street Safety and Reduce Obesity
• Publisher: Vital Health Publishing
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890612499
• ISBN 13: 9781890612498
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With obesity at an-all time high, America's children developing into medicated, overweight couch potatoes, and the looming fuel crisis, we need to look at what we can do to improve our societal situation. This thought-provoking book calls for the restoration of a walkable environment as the starting point of a solution to these pressing issues. Topics include: ? The Value of Walking and the Price of Not Walking ? Urban Sprawl and Automobile Dependence ? Underestimating the Problem of the Sedentary Lifestyle ? Children: an Endangered Species, The Older Pedestrian and Taxi Moms ? Driving Fatalities - 2.7 times more frequent than U.S. murders ? Commuting Stress, Air Pollution, and the Neglect of Public Transit ? The Decline in Walking ? Traffic and the Destruction of the Landscape ? Physical Inactivity and Health ? The Cost of Institutionalized Obesity ? Walking Prescriptions ? Creating Safe, Walkable Environments

About the Author

Marie Demers holds an M.A. in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Laval University (Quebec City). She worked as a health researcher for the last 25 years. She was involved for years in primary care research, and it rapidly became obvious to her that a large part of health problems encountered in primary care – and treated mostly with medications – were easily preventable through the adoption of healthier lifestyle habits. Her previous background in psychology, biology and anthropology and extensive traveling experience around the world taught her that the environment plays a role as important as personal behavior in developing those habits. She decided to write Walk for Your Life, showing the role of the environment in the disappearance of walking, and the modifications required to restore a walkable environment.

"As an avid pedestrian and cyclist, I am deeply aware of the barriers to walking and cycling in the urban environment. Nevertheless, I chose to live in an area where I can get access to everything on foot – even my office."