{"id":60,"date":"2013-03-11T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:02:43","slug":"work-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2013\/03\/11\/work-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Work the Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that walking between Keynes and Darwin colleges its approximately 1000 steps\u00a0 (half a mile)? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walking is simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight and become healthier. <\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s underrated as a form of exercise but walking is ideal for people of all ages and fitness levels who want to be more active.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the Campus Walks section in Leisure &amp; Health on this website, follow the link and download your own map of 4 walks to do in your lunch hour. We have even counted the paces for you. You can do it solo or team up with a walking partner.<\/p>\n<p>Regular walking has been shown to reduce the risk of chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma, stroke and some cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Livewell\/getting-started-guides\/Pages\/getting-started-walking.aspx\">http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Livewell\/getting-started-guides\/Pages\/getting-started-walking.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that walking between Keynes and Darwin colleges its approximately 1000 steps\u00a0 (half a mile)? \u00a0 Walking is simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight and become healthier. It&#8217;s underrated as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2013\/03\/11\/work-the-walk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7001,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}