World history step by step

Here's an interesting looking book.

Hardcover

Paperback

Is walking ever purposeless?

Everything has purpose, even seemingly aimless wandering. An article about the benefits of purposeless walking because it facilitates creative thinking. That sounds purposeful to me. Such meandering still has other benefits. In controlling my glucose levels, meandering around zoo pathways with my granddaughter, as low intensity as it was, still drove my higher post-meal levels to fasting levels. It just took a little longer than the higher intensity round of Nordic walking.

Have you heard if this approach to aging?

The World Health Organization promotes a concept called Healthy Aging. What does that mean?

Main points:

• "Healthy Ageing is about creating the environments and opportunities that enable people to be and do what they value throughout their lives."
• "…the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age."

Learn more about these concepts at the linked article:

• Functional ability
• Intrinsic capacity
• Environments
• Diversity
• Inequity