Walking with Bob

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By Bob Moore, Canton

Famous brisk walkers

Scholars who study the brain and healthy living say we are smarter when we walk. Stanford psychologists claim walkers are 60% smarter than sitters. So let’s all get out and walk briskly for 30 or 40 minutes today and every day henceforth and the creative juices will flow.

I did my own research by Googling to find out what famous and smart people are or were brisk walkers.

Well, a long time ago the likes of Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, two great teachers of human behavior were serious daily brisk walkers.

When it comes to creative juices add Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Dickens as impressive additions to the list of brisk walkers. We do know that they didn’t have automobiles or pickups so maybe they had to walk fast to get to where they were going.

Harry Truman was on that famous walker list. I remember reading General Douglas MacArthur’s biography and he tells of his brisk walk on a beach with President Harry Truman. That walk and General Mac getting fired was one big day in world history. Mark Zuckerberg is a brisk walker and just passed Warren Buffet in wealth. I bet he drinks more water and less soda pop than Warren. Is that enough proof that walking is good for your health?

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