Pedometer Steps Up Physical Activity

Giving older type 2 diabetic patients a pedometer and a goal to meet may be enough to get them moving, researchers said. A pedometer and the target of 10,000 steps a day increased their weekly calorie expenditure by nearly twice as much as controls, according to research released this week from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Moderate high-intensity exercise was also about eight times more frequent after patients received pedometers, they reported here at the American Geriatrics Society meeting.

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