• Brisk walking helps reduce body fat, lower blood pressure, and increase high-density lipoprotein.
• Modern literary theorists see a similarity between walking and writing. As Michel de Certeau observes, “writing is one way of making the world our own, and walking is another”.
• The United States walks the least of any industrialized nation. The average Australian takes 9,695 steps per day (just a few short of the ideal 10,000), the average Japanese takes 7,168; the average Swiss: 9,650; and the average American just 5,117.
• Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world.
• A typical pair of tennis shoes will last 500 miles of walking.
• It would take, on average, 1 hour and 43 minutes of walking to burn off a 540-calorie Big Mac.
• Walking reduces the risk of both breast and colon cancer.
• In 1970, 66% of children walked to school. Today, only 13% walk.
• The most popular form of exercise in the United States and Europe is walking.
• A person is 36 more times likely to be killed walking than by driving a car. A person is 300 times more likely to be killed walking than by flying in an airplane
• To burn off one plain M&M candy, a person would need to walk the entire length of a football field.

Tonight dear readers, enjoy the great Seelenluft, with the beautiful One Step track.