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WASHINGTON - You've heard us breeze by this one before: "Studies show that people who use pedometers walk more than those who don't," we say and, presumably, you trust us. But how many of you act on this wisdom? We have no clue, chiefly because we haven't installed obey-o-meters on all of you.
So our next-best weapon is to share a study published in the April issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise showing that middle-age, out-of-shape women who wore pedometers and were instructed to take at least 10,000 steps per day walked more than those who were told to take a brisk 30-minute walk "on most, preferably all days of the week'.'See the full content of this document
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Pedometer Use Motivates Walking, Study Says
The researchers, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, compared the two exercise strategies bec...
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