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...answer, as dozens of studies over the past five years have shown, turns out to be yes. Brisk walking provides many of the same benefits as more intense activities, like jogging or aerobics. The key seems to be in trading off intensity for duration. "If you're doing nothing and start doing a little, you will get a little benefit," says I-Min Lee, an exercise researcher at Harvard. "As you do more, you will see an additional benefit...
HEART DISEASE Brisk walking is known to be good for the heart, which makes a lot of sense. The heart is a muscle, after all, and anything that makes the blood flow faster through a muscle helps keep it in shape. But regular walking benefits the heart in other ways as well. It lowers blood pressure, which helps decrease the stress on the arteries. It can boost the amount of HDL cholesterol (the good one) in the blood. It even seems to make the blood less "sticky" and therefore less likely to produce unwanted clots. It all adds...
...peculiar pain of mixed signals. Somehow it's hard to feel good about U.S. carmakers forcing themselves through the binge-purge-binge motions of brisk and healthy capitalism, especially since none of them are making any actual money off these little stunts, and it strains credibility to imagine a spring consumer-spending boom fueled by healthily priced Chevys...
Tommy has a provocative message and a serious, if sentimental point, to make. In the end, the production succeeds in conveying this in addition to providing great music and a lot of fun. This production of Tommy is two brisk of hours of good theater and good music that shouldn’t be missed...
...what exactly makes these novels so wildly successful? Is it Rowling’s charismatic characters with whom everyone can relate? Her witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...