Walking Cuts Stroke Risk By One-Third

Walking, even if it's not perfect, turns out to be a perfectly good way to cut the risk of stroke. The American Heart Association reports that a 12-year-long study conducted in large part at the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who walked two or more hours per week had a significantly lower
risk of stroke than women who didn’t walk. Wait, there's more: The association reports that the researchers found that

• Women who usually walked at a brisk pace had a 37 percent lower risk
  of any type of stroke and those who walked two or more hours a week had
  a 30 percent lower risk of any type of stroke.
• Women who typically walked at a brisk pace had a 68 percent
  lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke and those who walked two or more hours a
  week had a 57 percent lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
• Women who usually walked at a brisk pace had a 25 percent lower
  risk of ischemic stroke and those who usually walked more than two hours
  a week had a 21 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke — both
  “borderline significant,” according to researchers.