Alia Crum and Professor Ellen Langer of Harvard University made an interesting experiment that measured what the effects of better appreciation of one exercise might have:

“…amazingly, despite no change in actual exercise levels, in the intervention group, simply being told about the value of what they were already doing caused a significant change for the better on every single one of the objective health measures recorded: weight, body fat, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio and blood pressure.”

More over at the PsyBlog.

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