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Is It Better to Walk or Run? 步行好，还是跑步好？ Walking and running are the most popular physical activities for American adults. But whether one is preferable to the other in terms of improving health has long been debated. Now a variety of new studies that pitted running directly against walking are providing some answers. Their conclusion? It depends almost completely on what you are hoping to accomplish. 步行和跑步是最受美国成年人欢迎的运动项目。然而究竟是走还是跑更利于健康，人们一直争论不休。最近有不少直接比较跑步与步行的新研究给我们提供了一些答案。他们的结论是？——到底谁更好，基本上完全取决于你的期望。 If, for instance, you are looking to control your weight — and shallowly or not, I am — running wins, going away. In a study published last month in Medicine Science in Sports Exercise, and unambiguously titled “Greater Weight Loss From Running than Walking,” researchers combed survey data from 15,237 walkers and 32,215 runners enrolled in the National Runners and Walkers Health Study — a large survey being conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. 假如你想减重——无论肤浅与否——跑步更胜一筹，而且大比分领先。今年4月发表在《体育医学与科学》(Medicine Science in Sports Exercise)上的一篇文章清楚明白地打着这样一行标题：《跑步比步行更利于减重》(Greater Weight Loss From Running than Walking)。研究者梳理了参与“全国跑步与步行健康研究”的15237名步行者和32215名跑步者的调查数据。该大型调查由加州伯克利市劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)进行。 Participants were asked about their weight, waist circumference, diets and typical weekly walking or running mileage both when they joined the study, and then again up to six years later. 参与者在调查开始时汇报了自己的体重、腰围、饮食习惯和通常每周或走或跑的英里数，六年后再次汇报以上数据的变化。 Getty Images The runners almost uniformly were thinner than the walkers when each joined the study. And they stayed that way throughout. Over the years, the runners maintained their body mass and waistlines far better than the walkers. 跑步者在调查初期就普遍比步行者瘦，而且之后一直保持。几年下来，跑步者在控制体重指数和腰围方面远比步行者强。 The difference was particularly notable among participants over 55. Runners in this age group were not running a lot and generally were barely expending more calories per week during exercise than