I TRY TO TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL WHENEVER MY SCHEDULE AND THE WEATHER PERMIT: The Benefits Of A Lunch-Hour Walk. “A new study finds that even gentle lunchtime strolls can perceptibly — and immediately — buoy people’s moods and ability to handle stress at work. . . . On the afternoons after a lunchtime stroll, walkers said they felt considerably more enthusiastic, less tense, and generally more relaxed and able to cope than on afternoons when they hadn’t walked and even compared with their own moods from a morning before a walk.”