Surprisingly how fat the poor of Lousiana are..

excerpt telegraph.co.uk
Now Britons are being urged to pick up two carbon poles - similar to ski sticks - and try their
hands at Nordic walking.

Their lecturer, Raija Kuisma, will also publish Britain's first research study into the subject
before the end of the year.

She said: "Heart rate and energy consumption during Nordic walking is 25 per cent to 40 per cent
higher than in ordinary walking, but at the same speed because the upper body is working as well. It
is ideal for injured or older people who can't usually exert themselves to a level necessary to ease
joints and improve fitness, but we need the research to convince doctors to prescribe it as a
remedy."

The procedure is silly-looking but simple and subtly unlike general hiking with the aid of poles.
Two carbon-fibre sticks, which taper towards a point, are placed behind the body at a 45 degree
angle, for propulsion. The poles, when operated by co-ordinated people, swing in opposition to their
stride, with the idea of rotating desk-seized shoulders and straightening a compressed spine.

It is the answer to the modern immobility of the upper