Walk for Your Life! Restoring Neighborhood Walkways to Enhance Community Life, Improve Street Safety, and Reduce Obesity Marie Demers, PhD

ISBN-10: 1-890612-49-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-890612-49-8 Length: 256 Pages Size: 6 x 9-inch Format: Quality paperback Category: Health / Fitness / Urban Planning Price: $16.95 US / $20.50 CAN Availability: In print Click below for: Synopsis • Contents Introduction • Reviews

Synopsis

Our streets and roadways have become increasingly unsafe and unfriendly to pedestrians and bikers. Suburban sprawl makes driving a virtual necessity. City planning focuses more on moving cars and buses than on enabling people to walk safely from one place to another. And as a country, we are becoming alarmingly less healthy as our opportunities to walk are curtailed and we become more sedentary.

Walk for Your Life! insists that we do not--and should not--have to accept this change lying down. With obesity at an all-time high, America’s sidewalks vanishing from our suburbs, pedestrians and bicyclists at risk along many roads, and a fuel crisis on the horizon, we need to re-evaluate personal and societal walking values. This thought-provoking book calls for the restoration of a walkable environment as a starting point for addressing a range of pressing issues .

Marie Demers, PhD has worked as a health researcher for the past twenty-five years. An epidemiologist, she has been involved mainly in primary care research, where many health problems are clearly preventable through the adoption of healthier lifestyle habits. Her background in psychology, biology, and anthropology has taught her that environment plays a key role in developing these habits.