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Physical exercise is widely known as a health-promoting tool, however, increase the amount of physical activity may give you more benefits, such as taking more steps to lower cholesterol. A report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine confirms and validates.

The study was conducted by Professor Peter T. Katzmarzyk, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The metabolic syndrome, among which is the high level of low density cholesterol, which can work both overweight people, such as those with normal weight.

The research showed that those who walked more were the group with less percentage of metabolic syndrome. The group walked more than 10.000 steps a day. Whereas it is a walking pace of 100 steps per minute, in half an hour can be done 3000 steps. Read the rest of this entry »