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Tips for increasing your physical activity

Tips for increasing your physical activity

I wrote an article about the 10000 steps strategy which has as a goal to improve people’s health. It was a few weeks ago under the title: The 10000 daily steps campaign “hardly” improves health. This healthy idea seems to respond to a great marketing campaign for selling millions of pedometers or smartphones. Health looks like…

The 10,000 daily steps campaign “hardly” improves health

The 10,000 daily steps campaign “hardly” improves health

The 10,000-step campaign has become very popular recently. Its popularity grew almost at the same time with “healthy” apps, smartwatches and smartphones. Apparently, completing 10,000 steps on a daily basis should improve your health by reducing risk of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases, among others health conditions. But the reality and science offer a different…