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How Taking More Meetings Could Save Your Life.

Published in the Daily Muse (@dailymuse) – Really nice piece by Anneke Jong (@annekejong) on walking meetings, that I was interviewed in.

My favorite is the heading in the article “Walking is the new Golf.”

I’ve never been good at golf. I am good at walking :) .

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Celebrate Telework Week: Go for a Walk (while working)!


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By: Scott Bricker (@ssbricker) , America Walks (@AmericaWalks); Ted Eytan, MD, Kaiser Permanente (@tedeytan); Rae Anne Deakins, American Council on Exercise (@acefitness) Are you planning to telework during national Telework Week March 4-8? Last year the benefits included 6,400,000 fewer miles driven and millions of dollars and minutes of time saved on commuting. Start on Monday – [...]

Physicians Rating and Prescribing Parks : The DC Park Prescription Podcast


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DC Park Prescription Podcast (click here to download directly into iTunes) I’ve done a fireside podcast, a walking podcast, this is my first park podcast. It was recorded at Washington, DC’s Stanton Park and stars Robert Zarr, MD, MPH (@doczarr), our city’s physician champion for rating and prescribing parks. Keith Montgomery, the Executive Director of [...]

Best.Walking.Meetings.Ever (to date)


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Filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee and Vice Admiral Regina Marcia Benjamin, USPHS on a walking meeting, Center for Total Health View on Flickr.com At the Every Body Walk (@everybodywalk #EBWpartners) partners meeting last week, Scott Bricker (@ssbricker) , the Executive Director of AmericaWalks (@AmericaWalks), and I, worked with the event organizers to include walking meetings in [...]

Now Reading: From Recommending Walking to Making Walking Possible in Communities


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Steps to a Walkable Community: A guide for Citizens, Planners, and Engineers : Sam Schwartz Engineering and AmericaWalks Continuing the series I started yesterday, today’s post is about a 180 page guide that is about everything that makes walking possible outside the medical office, from policy to best practices in cities across the world. Beyond [...]

Photo Friday: Any meeting can become a walking meeting


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View Walk with a Doc 15315 on Flickr.com As posted on Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (@kptotalhealth) blog this week, this is a photograph of leaders of the Care Connectivity Consortium, who were in Washington, DC for one of their meetings. You can read more about the CCC here. As part of our hosting [...]

Now Reading: Walking not only rearranges your neurochemistry (I knew it), it grows your brain


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Cognitive Effects of Exercise in Preadolescent children Hillman CH, Erickson KI, Kramer AF. Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience. 2008;9(1):58-65 Davis CL, Tomporowski PD, McDowell JE, et al. Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: a randomized, controlled trial. Health psychology [...]