Hot on the heels of researchers saying that increased physical activity can help prevent or delay dementia comes a further study showing that it can also improve the mood of people with arthritis when they are feeling fatigued. Living Streets encourages everyone to build walking into their daily lives for all the health benefits that activity brings. Walk to school or work, to the shops or the park, to your social occasions or just around your neighbourhood: it doesn’t matter where you walk so long as you walk every day.

For more information about Living Streets’ walking campaigns, visit www.livingstreets.org.uk

TOM PLATT, Head of Research and Policy, Living Streets, Wentworth Street, London