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WATCHING GOLF IS GOOD FOR YOU
GOING to watch a golf tournament will help boost your health, research reveals.
The majority of golf fans walk more than 10,000 steps while spectators at a tournament, a new study shows. Fans at the Paul Lawrie Match Play event at Archerfield Links, East Lothian, averaged about 11,500 steps per day, researchers found.
The NHS has challenged people to walk 10,000 steps a day and many fitness trackers set that number as a target.
Researcher Andrew Murray, of Edinburgh University, said: “Walking is one of the best things you can do for your health, adding years to life and increasing health and happiness.
“These pilot findings show that golf spectators can gain physical activity which could benefit their health – while watching top-quality sport.”
The study was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
FIDGETING COULD SHED WEIGHT
OFFICE workers given a device that encouraged them to move their legs used up 20% more calories, according to a study in the journal Frontiers of Psychology.
Despite being small, the constant muscle contractions burn up extra calories, researchers at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the Mayo Clinic in the US found.
ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH WATER?
THE European Food Safety Authority recommends that women should drink about 1.6 litres and men about 2 litres per day. That’s about eight glasses of 200ml each for a woman, and 10 Are you drinking 1.6 glasses for litres of water a day? a man.
However, the amount a person needs to drink will vary depending on a range of factors, including their size, the temperature and how active they are.
So, for example, if you’re exercising hard in hot weather you’ll need more.