The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.


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ANDRE WEIL
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in...
ANDRE WEIL
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
ANDRE WEIL
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate...
ANDRE WEIL
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n...
CYNTHIA WEIL
Humility is attentive patience.
SIMONE WEIL
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics ...
SIMONE WEIL
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least t...
SIMONE WEIL
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break...
CYNTHIA WEIL
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which...
SIMONE WEIL
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, ...
SIMONE WEIL
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
CYNTHIA WEIL
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed w...
SIMONE WEIL
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of tho...
SIMONE WEIL
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real ne...
SIMONE WEIL
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
SIMONE WEIL
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
SIMONE WEIL
(We had) the author of 'Holes,' Louis Sachar, go to the Staples Center and had 18,000 to 20,000 stud...
DAVID WEIL
Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
CYNTHIA WEIL
What we're trying to do and focus on is really establish Walden as a Good Housekeeping Seal of Appro...
DAVID WEIL
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking the...
SIMONE WEIL
It's another one of those more serious contraction phases that are followed by buying on the dip. I ...
ULRIC WEIL
My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
CYNTHIA WEIL
This is a vote to start negotiations. This is not a vote to withdraw. It merely starts the process. ...
GORDON WEIL
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his l...
SIMONE WEIL
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process...
CYNTHIA WEIL