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Heart Health: Take the Stairs, Eat Nuts!

Posted on September 03, 2008

Eating right and exercising is critical. In fact, research just showed that running is a GREAT way to improve heart health, but if running isn t your thing. Try taking the stairs!A new study claims that simply walking up and down the stairs can reduce waist size, body fat, blood pressure and cholesterol. Ben Hirschler of Reuters reports:Philippe Meyer of the University Hospital in Geneva studied 69 employees of the university with a sedentary lifestyle, defined as less than two hours of exercise a week and fewer than 10 flights of stairs climbed a day. After not using elevators for 12 weeks,...

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