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Boston, New York, and San Franciso are the top-rated cities for walking, as determined by the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). The APMA surveyed the most populated cities and examined them for walker-friendly characteristics, such as how many people walk to work each day, safe air quality, crime rates, pedestrian deaths, amount of rainfall, number of parks, how many podiatrists are available to keep your feet happy and healthy, and how many health clubs and sports stores are there to serve you. There are great places to walk in Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Franciso, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

Offers news briefs related to walking as of October 1999. Tips on protecting oneself against foot pain; Walking vacations in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

Reports on how to become inspired by physicians who prescribe walking and who practice what they preach. Comments from Neil Block, M.D., of Orangeburg, New York, Nadine Braunstein, a registered dietician in Boston, and Robert Lang, M.D., the medical director of the Osteoporosis Diagnostic and Treatment Centers in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn.; The benefits of walking; A new perspective on walking.