Fewer and fewer people walk on daily basis. What are the reasons and how to encourage them to spend time walking?

Walking has always been considered as one of the best ways to keep fit, yet the

trend

of walking is declining among individuals. Fast-paced

lifestyle

, improved and convenient modes of transportation and technological developments are a few of the reasons behind

this

development, and the

trend

can be reversed just by making

people

more aware of their

health

and with a slight change in

lifestyle

. Earlier, walking was used to be the most used mode to travel from one place to another. With the development of other faster modes of transportation,

people

started to shift from being pedestrians to another alternative of transport, either it is the bicycles of the earlier 20th century to modern era’s cars and aeroplanes.

In addition

to

this

, globalization has lead to a fast-paced

lifestyle

, where everyone tries to utilize the maximum of their time, and walking is somewhat considered a time-consuming practice.

For example

,

people

are working in multiple shifts and performing different jobs at different places in a day, and they prefer to drive or ride to commute as the hours are saved, which

otherwise

would have been utilized in covering the same distance on foot.

Thus

, to save and utilize the valuable time in a more productive way

people

are not preferring to stroll anymore. ,

Furthermore

technological up-gradation has

also

proved to be the contributor to

this

trend

. The tasks which in past required more physical involvement, are being done by machines these days.

For example

, in the agriculture ,sector there was a lot of walking involved, but now most of the tasks are performed by using tractors and other mechanical equipment

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and

thus

resulting in a reduced number of pedestrians.

On the contrary

to all the benefits, the ill effects of

this

increasing

trend

of not walking much on the

health

of individuals cannot be ignored. More and more

people

are getting obese and having other

health

issues. To reverse

this

practice of not being a pedestrian,

people

are needed to be made more aware of the

health

benefits of walking. No vehicle zones can be made to promote walking. In conclusion, the lack of time caused by a fast-paced

lifestyle

and the availability of faster transportation means has caused

people

to walk less, and

this

practice can be discouraged by making

people

aware of the

health

benefits of strolling and by setting up some specific walkways and vehicle-free zones.