Walk Your Way to a Longer Life: NIH Study Reveals Simple Tricks

A study supported by the NIH reveals that specific incentives can encourage sustained behavioral changes in adults at risk for cardiovascular disease.
According to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in the journal Circulation, adults at risk for heart disease who were given daily reminders and incentives to increase activity boosted their daily steps by over 1,500 after one year. Furthermore, many participants continued to maintain this new level of activity six months later.

The findings were simultaneously presented as late-breaking research at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Session.