Monday, May 16, 2016
Greetings Infomaniacs,
While brisk walking helps reduce body fat, lower blood pressure, and increase high-density lipoprotein, the United States walks the least of any industrialized nation. The average Australian takes 9,695 steps per day (just a few short of the ideal 10,000), and the average American just 5,117.
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HINT: An Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He has been described as "the founder of modern management".
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world.
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A person burns essentially the same amount of calories whether they run or walk a mile. Running just gets a person to a destination faster.
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It would take, on average, 1 hour and 43 minutes of walking to burn off a 540-calorie Big Mac.
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To burn off one plain M&M candy, a person would need to walk the entire length of a football field.
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its key institutions - rearranges itself...Fifty years later, there is a new world, and people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grandparents lived...We are currently living through such a time."
ANSWER: Peter Drucker, cited in "Managing In Great Times Of Change" (1995)