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15 Sep, 2011

10,000 steps plus trips to the gym, it’ll make you and the boss happy

EMPLOYEES who walk 10,000 steps a day and work out in the gym three times a week can give their employer an extra $2500 worth of productivity a year, an Australian clinical trial has found. In addition, they can add five years to their lifespan in the process.

The Body-Brain Performance Institute, in conjunction with Swinburne University’s Brain Sciences Institute, took 40 employees of the Melbourne branch of the global software company SAP in April this year, gave them pedometers and then split them into two groups.

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