Even modest amounts of walking – as few as 3,000 steps a day – may help protect against Alzheimer’s by reducing harmful tau proteins in the brain.
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Research is revealing that fitness trackers alone can be helpful facilitators toward changing a sedentary lifestyle but don’t motivate people to increase their physical activity.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto
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Professor and Department Head of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Boise State University
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