Good news - Walking better than running for your health?!

Brisk walk really may be just as good as a run, study finds  (from Health on the Today Show)

Very very good news for those of us training for The MoonWalk - a study was just released that showed that a brisk walk could be just as good or better than running for your health.

Here were some of the results - you can see how good walking is for you:

• Running significantly reduced the risk for being diagnosed with hypertension by 4.2% while walking reduced the risk by 7.2%
• Running reduced the chances of having high cholesterol by 4.3% and walking by 7%
• Running lowered risk of diabetes by 12.1% while walking dropped the risk by 12.3%
• Running reduced coronary heart disease risk by 4.5% compared to 9.3% for walking.

The best part - walking is an exercise that most of us can actually do, work into our schedule, get better at, do more of!

Read more about this in the Time Magazine blog - Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin 

Walkers at the starting line at The MoonWalk