Climb Your Way to Better Health
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5 min readOct 13, 2023
I TRY TO AVOID THE ELEVATOR AT WORK, preferring to climb a flight or two of stairs. A new study suggests that you can climb your way to better health. Daily climbing of more than five flights of stairs is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases (stroke, blood clots, and heart attacks.
This essay explores this thought-provoking new study, recently published in Atherosclerosis.