Walk, don't drive! Community promotion of physical activity has 2-fold benefit
Monday, August 3, 2009 - 16:07
in Health & Medicine
About half of the car trips in the U.S. are less than five miles -a distance easily navigated by walking or cycling. Reducing short-distance car trips has many benefits -it decreases car accidents, has positive benefits for the environment and increases physical health and activity, says communication professor Edward Maibach of George Mason University. An expert in climate change communication research, Maibach says that community leaders should make promotion of physical activity a priority.