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Pedometer challenge meets male middle aged civil servants from 1970s

By · March 23, 2017 · Archives · No comments

 

The belief that ’10,000’ steps is good for you is relatively ingrained fitness lore worldwide. The belief has spread through high profile global step fitness challenges and the prevalence of relatively cheap, accurate digital step counters. However, before we all became fixated with collecting our own personal health…

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Introduction to the Whitehall Study cataloguing project

By · February 22, 2017 · Archives · No comments

This is the first blog in a series relating to the cataloguing of the health survey of male civil servants aged 40 and over, more commonly known as the Whitehall Study. For this initial post, I will outline the project goals, what the Whitehall study was all about and what…

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