A $20 fitness gadget stood up to multiple research studies, helping people walk an additional mile each day — but only if they logged their steps. Those who did lowered their blood pressure and lost a ...

Caroline Brown has a drawer full of pedometers. There’s one to match nearly every outfit she owns. “I’m mad for pedometers,” Brown said. It figures. The 52-year-old is health and fitness director at ...

Step counting has been a time-honored fitness metric for decades, even if the 10,000-step rule of thumb was based on a Japanese marketing strategy rather than anything resembling science. The older ...

According to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, programs promoting step goals - such as walking 10,000 steps per day - can encourage people to exercise enough to reap health ...

Make that 10,000 hops, skips and jumps. Ferrara recently launched a program using pedometers in her classes at Irving Elementary School after she noticed more and more of her students were leading ...

According to a new study conducted by researchers at Brigham Young University, wearing a step-tracker is an easy way to get more steps in per day — even if you don’t look at it. The study found that ...

A study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) shows that physician-delivered step count prescriptions, combined with the use of a pedometer, can lead to a 20 per ...

People who set daily walking goals for themselves and clip on a pedometer to count the number of steps they take go farther in life than those who don't -- a whole mile farther, in fact. New research ...

STANFORD, Calif. - The pedometer, a small, inexpensive device that counts the number of steps walked per day, could be key to ramping up a person's physical activity. Researchers at the Stanford ...

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