Medicine and science in sports and exercise
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Med Sci Sports Exerc · May 2005
A Colorado statewide survey of walking and its relation to excessive weight.
There is an urgent need to increase the physical activity in the population. Small-scale success has been achieved in programs like Colorado on the Move (COM), an obesity prevention program using electronic pedometers. ⋯ Increasing steps per day appears to be a good target to use in interventions to increase physical activity. Even in Colorado, one of the leanest states, very low levels of physical activity are seen in much of the population.