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Change or die? 10,000 steps a day could change your health forever

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Fear of death is a powerful, but often only temporary, motivator. When the swine flu frenzy subsides, people will go back to their normal behavior. That includes going to work sick and forgetting about all the hand-washing — even though the threat of getting sick with many diseases still exists.

Doctors have observed the same pattern in many post-heart attack patients. Studies show that within a few months as many as 80%¹ of patients go back to the same behaviors that landed them in the hospital.

This suggests that doctors have little success scaring patients into changing destructive behaviors. Permanent behavior change comes from a change in perspective, not fear.

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Dr. Dean Ornish² is an expert in changing at-risk patient behavior. His groundbreaking 1993 study revealed two factors in successful behavior change: (1) focusing on positive, immediate results rather than the avoidance of negative consequences; (2) fostering willingness to adopt immediate, radical change.