![]() ![]() But it turns out that she was right all along.” I thought it was just my granny being whimsical. “All the things she would say – ‘Go for a walk and take a few deep breaths and then you’ll feel calmer’ – that sort of thing. “While I was writing the book, I found myself thinking of my granny quite often,” she says. ![]() She’s the ideal companion for an afternoon’s urban ramble. She has just published a book, 52 Ways to Walk, which is full of clearly presented science, nuggets of history and infectious enthusiasm for being out in the world and simply walking as a way of tackling so many of our ills. ![]() This is just the start of our walk and only the first of Streets’s remarkable facts. There are studies showing that the blood pressure of people walking under evergreens was significantly lower than that of the people walking in a control group.” “Terpenes are the trees’ own immune system,” says Streets, “and when you walk underneath them you breathe that self-protection mechanism. ![]()
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