Gary Payinda trained in LA, Chicago and Baltimore as an emergency physician before settling down in Whangarei.
Most Kiwis don't realise that something as simple as walking to school or work could be the best thing they do to improve their health and live longer, emergency medicine expert Dr Gary Payinda says.
Dr Payinda has been answering readers' health questions for the past six months and says many people are looking to the latest fads, such as new diets, pills or exercise routines as the panacea to their health problems.
"But what many people don't seem to realise is that walking to school or work each day, or cycling, is probably the best thing they can do for their health," he says.
Walk this way to live a decade longer (http://www.topix.com/world/oceania/2010/12/walk-this-way-to-live-a-decade-longer?fromrss=1)