{"id":4454,"date":"2016-01-22T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T05:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:07:09","slug":"get-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/get-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4455\" src=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/walking.jpg\" alt=\"walking\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/walking.jpg 400w, https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/walking-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A recent study shows that increasing the number of steps you walk each day\u00a0can add to your life expectancy. The study monitored 3,000 Australians (average age of \u00a059 years old) over 15 years and was conducted\u00a0by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeinstitute.org.au\/media-releases\/more-steps-a-day-keep-the-doctor-away-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Institute for Global Health<\/a> in collaboration with the Menzies Research Institute in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which were published in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sedentary person who increased his\/her steps from 1,000 to 10,000 per day had a 46% lower mortality risk.<\/li>\n<li>A sedentary person who increased his\/her steps to 3,000 per day, five days a week had a 12% reduction in death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0the association between daily steps and mortality was largely independent of factors such as Body Mass Index (BMI) and smoking.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of short and long walks in and around Sydney and Hobart (with amazing views) so you really have got no excuses!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Health <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Jigsaw<\/span><\/span><\/strong> is a well trusted mobile outdoor personal and fitness training business and our trainers have been helping clients since 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> for a FREE initial consultation to discuss how we can help you fit all the healthy lifestyle pieces together.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/home\/\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/who-we-are\/\">Who We Are<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/what-we-do\/\">What We Do<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/testimonials\/\">Testimonials<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study shows that increasing the number of steps you walk each day\u00a0can add to your life expectancy. The study monitored 3,000 Australians (average age of \u00a059 years old) over 15 years and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}