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Pedometers- Gizmos Worth Having
November 21, 2007 at 5:06 PM
Lifestyle News
Pedometers are also known as step counters. They serve to count the number of steps a person takes per day. The gizmo is attached to a belt or waistband.
According to research by Dr. Dena Bravata of Stanford University, wearing a pedometer helps people walk an additional 1.5 kilometers each day . Her research, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that pedometer wearers lowered their blood pressure and lost a few pounds in the bargain.
Pedometers range in price from $5 to $60. The analysis discovered that increasing physical activity was dependant on setting a goal and keeping a diary of the number of steps walked each day.
"Every night, you write down how many steps you walked that day. By flipping back through your diary, you're able to see patterns: 'on the two days a week I took the stairs, I increased my steps"', Bravata says.
Bravata by her own admission , "really wanted to know if these little gizmos that now are increasingly popular worked".
She and her colleagues examined 20 studies from the United States and Canada and half a dozen from Japan, Europe and Australia. The average age of participants was 49. Around 85 per cent were female as some studies targeted women. The total number of volunteers overall was greater than 2,700.
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