Thursday, 14 May 2009

A vigorous five-mile walk

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
Paul Dudley White

1 comment:

  1. How times change ...
    He died in 1973, so the quote is at least 35 years old. Postwar, at the start of the era of women returning to work, might they have found they had neither the time nor the energy for the luxury of an hour's vigorous walking?
    But hey-ho! Scrubbing kitchen floors was a good enough substitute ...

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