{"id":103689,"date":"2019-07-28T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/28\/its-a-superpower-how-walking-makes-us-healthier-happier-and-brainier\/"},"modified":"2019-07-28T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:00:15","slug":"its-a-superpower-how-walking-makes-us-healthier-happier-and-brainier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=103689","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a superpower\u2019: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientist Shane O\u2019Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else. He explains why you should exchange your gym kit for a pair of comfy shoes and get strollingTaking a stroll with Shane O\u2019Mara is a risky endeavour. The neuroscientist is so passionate about walking, and our collective right to go for walks, that he is determined not to let the slightest unfortunate aspect of urban design break his stride. So much so, that he has a habit of darting across busy roads as the lights change. \u201cOne of life\u2019s great horrors as you\u2019re walking is waiting for permission to cross the street,\u201d he tells me, when we are forced to stop for traffic \u2013 a rude interruption when, as he says, \u201cthe experience of synchrony when walking together is one of life\u2019s great pleasures\u201d. He knows this not only through personal experience, but from cold, hard data \u2013 walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier.We are wandering the streets of Dublin discussing O\u2019Mara\u2019s new book, In Praise of Walking, a backstage tour of what happens in our brains while we perambulate. Our jaunt begins at the grand old gates of his workplace, Trinity College, and takes in the Irish famine memorial at St Stephen\u2019s Green, the Georgian mile, the birthplace of Francis Bacon, the site of Facebook\u2019s new European mega-HQ and the salubrious seaside dwellings of Sandymount. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/jul\/28\/its-a-superpower-how-walking-makes-us-healthier-happier-and-brainier\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It\u2019s a superpower\u2019: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientist Shane O\u2019Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else. He explains why you should exchange your gym kit for a pair of comfy shoes and get strollingTaking a stroll with Shane O\u2019Mara is a risky endeavour. The neuroscientist is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}