Physical Activity

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Walk your way to better health.

A more active lifestyle helps prevent chronic disease, extend your life, and even lowers your risk of dementia. Step out for a walk – outdoors or indoors – and find out how easy it is to get active. Half an hour of brisk walking twice a day is enough to start healthy changes in your life — for free.

Move Your Way

What works? How much do you need? Find out how to get moving at home, at work, indoors or out, a lot or a little, It all adds up!

More steps you can take today:

More steps to better health:

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