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“You're staring at a spreadsheet.

You're staring at all this information on your screen and when I get up, my eyes feel so much better, go back to the computer and feel refreshed and start again and I feel so much more productive after I walk."Longo works for Hewitt Associates in East Orlando.

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Stickers are placed every 50 feet through out the building to map out a route."We’ve gone around our hallways and mapped out walking paths of a 1/4 mile, 1/2mile, 3/4 mile and a mile,” said Brad Crandell, Orlando Location Leader at Hewitt Associates."I spend maybe 15 minutes eating and then I get a group of friends together and we walk throughout the building,” Longo said.If your company doesn't have an indoor walking program you can always pack up your comfortable shoes and head to your favorite park.  Walking once around Lake Eola is the same as walking a mile."Our life expectancy is increased by two hours for every hour that we walk," Roblin said.The American Heart Association says walking helps get extra weight off and keep it off.That's Your Health and Fitness, Nancy Gay Central Florida News 13.

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I'm not really a big fat eater to begin with. — Margaret L., TalentMedical tests, like anything else, always need to be interpreted in the appropriate context, says Dr.

Brian Gross, a Medford cardiologist.Scientific studies have shown that But everybody does not have an equal chance of having a heart attack.

Age, family history, gender and life habits all play a role.To make an informed decision about taking statins, a person needs to know what the relative risk of having a heart attack or stroke would be if he or she chose not take the drugs."You need to pick your population carefully," Gross says.

"A higher-risk population does better" with statins.Gross says a tool called Framingham analysis can help ordinary mortals understand the concept.

It's a formula that determines a person's relative future cardiac risk by incorporating age, gender, blood pressure, waist size and It's named for the same Massachusetts town that was the site of one of the pioneering studies in cardiac health.Consider, for example, an...

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