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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (11002)	12/16/2010 5:41:46 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 69300

When my brain gets a head of steam on, I pace. I make a point of taking a long walk at those times. In college I explained it thus: "I think with my thighs." "Better" thinking is a part of it. Nobody knows for sure but I've seen 8 million years since our species became bipedal. That's roughly 400,000 generations of evolutionary optimization. As hunter gatherers our ancestors who could walk more efficiently, farther, faster won the reproductive war. Google "health study walking" and you'll find that walking an hour a day reduces the incidence of many deceases from cancer to diabetes to depression to alzheimers to ... By pretty dramatic percentages. It's not a great leap in logic to suggest that Not Walking is the cause of those deceases in humans. After 400,000 generations of optimization for walking I imagine every organ is placed and designed to aid in the walking process. Use it or lose it as they say. And bipedalism is VERY VERY rare on this planet. Many birds yes but it's not their prime mode of transportation. No it's my personal contention that not walking, a recent evolutionary development, is a good part of what makes us sick. Why did we go bipedal? There are many theories but I think all miss the core. Maybe in another post.