Brisk walking for just a few days a week can drastically lower risk of death
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Even if you just power walk during the weekend, you'll still be ahead with your fitness.
Even if you just power walk during the weekend, you'll still be ahead with your fitness.
If you walk just one to two days a week, it’s almost as good as doing it nearly every day, according to a study of people who…
I just walked 120 km over five days on the South Downs Way along the southeast coast of the United Kingdom. It was a beautiful…
Experts believe that infants should get some interactive floor-based physical activity two to three times a day. Sam Edwards/OJO…
Experts believe that infants should get some interactive floor-based physical activity two to three times a day. Sam Edwards/OJO…
Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really…
Un article de Nature (Althoff et al. 2017) utilisait des données issues d’une application comptabilisant le nombre de pas…
Physical activity needs to improve globally - but to do that we need to understand reasons people aren't exercising.
The Physical Activity and Population Health BJSM Blog Series By Sonia Cheng @soniawmcheng No, this isn’t a blog tribute to Lou…
COSTUME E SOCIETÀ – Uno studio descritto su PLOS ONE ha testato la possibilità di analizzare le immagini di Google Street View…
Epidemija debelosti je razširjena po vsem svetu in kot je videti, se stanje ne izboljšuje. Nasprotno, (pre)debelih je vse več…
Our smartphones are providing researchers with a clear picture of how much exercise we’re doing – or not doing.
Readers may have already heard about a recent study by Tim Althoff and colleagues from Stanford University, published in Nature…
Welcome to the Altmetric High Five for July! On a monthly basis, my High Five posts examine a selection of the most popular…
Can your phone decrease your obesity risk?Approximately 5.3 million people die from causes associated with physical inactivity…
With some journalistic flair, the BBC headline titled: 'Do you live in the world's least active country?'' caught my eye…
From Althoff et al.: To be able to curb the global pandemic of physical inactivity and the associated 5.3 million deaths per…
PC shipments are at the lowest level of the last 10 years, and they have been declining for the last two years. Using…
Americans have more luxuries and more opportunities to lay back and do nothing than perhaps any other country in the world.
Enlarge (credit: Rajarshi MITRA - flickr) On average, people in the US take around the same number of steps daily as people…
Turns out, activity inequality is a great predictor of obesity rates.
Using smartphones to study public health requires reliable data—and researchers, even at well-connected universities like…
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Many of my friends use smartphones to track their steps as they walk about town to grocery shop, grab lunch or just take a…
A global study based on daily steps counted by smartphones discovers “activity inequality.” It’s similar to income inequality…