Move! Eat better: news

Are you curious to know whether you’re doing enough daily exercise…? Test yourself with a pedometer!

Through the Move! Eat better campaign, launched in May 2012, the CERN medical service is aiming to improve the health of members of the personnel by encouraging them to prioritise physical activity in conjunction with a balanced diet. Various successful activities have already taken place: relay race/Nordic walk, Bike2work, Zumba and fitness workshops, two conferences (“Physical activity for health” and “Good nutrition every day”), events in the restaurants, as well as posters and a website.

Although everyone has got the message from our various communications that physical activity is good for your health, there is still a relevant question being asked: “What is the minimum amount of exercise recommended?” 10,000 steps per day is the ideal figure, which has been demonstrated as beneficial by scientific studies on this subject. So that you can see how many steps you are doing yourself, the medical service invites you to rent a pedometer, available from the infirmary.

The Medical Service can provide you with a pedometer.
Call us on 73802 or send us an e-mail to reserve a pedometer: infirmary.service@cern.ch