18 Quotes by Rebecca Johnson

We know that walking is good for people but we don't know how to get people to continue to do it. We wanted to see whether bonding with a dog might be a motivator to continue walking,

We had one lady, ... who relied on an electric scooter when she was outside of her apartment and by the end of the 50 week program she was able to walk to the neighborhood grocery store and back.

This news is an answer to our prayers. We continue to hope and pray for their release.

The results of the first group were wonderful. Even though we didn't see a significant amount of weight loss in the group that walked for a shorter period of time, by the end of the study, all the participants were walking for longer periods of time and walking for daily errands instead of using some other type of transportation.

The results of the first group were wonderful,

I see people running red lights all the time so they don't have to sit there. People will fly around you and then you get stuck at the light with them and then they will do it again.

You sit there and you're wasting gas and people get madder.

They have been busy with this activity station now for almost 15 minutes. After they sat quietly in Imax for almost an hour, we did not expect that anything would hold their attention for this long, but they are fascinated by everything that has to do with space stuff.

In addition, two of the participants made a trip to the humane society to adopt animals, and several began volunteering to walk the dogs at the shelter. Many of them told us that they didn't necessarily walk in the study because they knew it was good for their health; they enjoyed walking because they knew it was good for the animals.