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Everyone knows that walking is good for you.   New studies have show how good walking is for your overall health.   If a short walk is good, is a longer walk better?   How much walking does one have to do to improve health? How much walking is needed to improve health? Sedentary is bad, walking is good , is a new way to look at activity.   A sedentary person who only walks about 1,000 steps a day who ups it to 3,000 steps a day can improve their health.   A study published in PLOS One , and highlighted in More Steps a day keep the doctor away , found that the more steps you do the greater the health benefits.   But even increasing walking from 1000 t0 3000 steps a day resulted in a 12% lowered mortality risk.     Those who met the goal of walking 10,000 steps a day lowered their mortality risk a whopping 46%.   They determined this by tracking 3,000 Australians, average age of 58, for over 15 years.   The study participants wore...

Recently a relative stated their Fitbit didn’t seem to accurately reflect how many calories they burned up during exercise.   Many calculators I have used do seem to overstate the calories burned in an activity.   Calculators that are simple relying on weight and duration may not be as accurate as calculators that require more input like gender, height and that provide a much broader array of activities.   Some activity calculators are built into apps like Lose It! and others are online stand-alone exercise calculators.   If you want to know how many calories you are burning at the gym, doing routine chores or exercising outdoors here are some calculators to try: Health Status – Calories Burned Calculator – This provides an extensive listing of exercise and common daily activities.   You enter your age, gender, height, weight, and number of minutes for the chosen activity and it estimates calories burned.   As the calculator notes, it takes 3500 calor...