{"id":1289,"date":"2018-01-24T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/?page_id=1289"},"modified":"2018-06-04T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T18:11:06","slug":"bienvenue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/bienvenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bienvenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cWe have to face reality and admit that for many patients, just telling them to be more physically active simply doesn\u2019t work. A lot of people want to be active, but it is very difficult to change health behaviours. The idea is to use step counts almost as a medication.\u201d
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(McGill Newsroom)
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 cent increase in daily steps, as well as measurable health benefits, such as lower blood sugar and lower insulin resistance, for patients with hypertension and\/or type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cWe have to face reality and admit that for many patients, just telling them to be more physically active simply doesn\u2019t work. A lot of people want to be active, but it is very difficult to change health behaviours. The idea is to use step counts almost as a medication.\u201d– Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta, Lead investigator … Read moreBienvenue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1289","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartersteps.ca\/walk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}