Attention all shoppers: taking the stairs protects your heart. That's the message researchers tried at a suburban shopping mall by putting up colorful signs along the steps of a staircase, and it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONDON — Attention, shoppers: Taking the stairs protects your heart. That’s the message researchers tried at a suburban shopping mall by putting up colorful ...

What does it take to make people more physically active? Maybe just a sign. Signs posted in buildings prompting people to take the stairs instead of the elevators proved successful in getting them to ...

What would it take to get you to use the stairs instead of the escalator at your local mall? A team of researchers has found that healthy messages printed on stair risers attract climbers and might ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests. Sign up here. British researchers ...

LONDON — Attention all shoppers: taking the stairs protects your heart. That's the message researchers tried at a suburban shopping mall by putting up colorful signs along the steps of a staircase, ...

There’s an easy way to encourage people to take the stairs instead of an elevator: put up a sign reminding them to. Previous studies have found out that signs work, but those efforts didn’t ...

LONDON – Attention all shoppers: taking the stairs protects your heart. That's the message researchers tried at a suburban shopping mall by putting up colorful signs along the steps of a staircase, ...

You're not immune to the messages on signs. A new study out of New York City found that just posting a note to "burn calories, not electricity" could boost staircase use dramatically. Can a simple ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Better access to stairs in office buildings - and prompts reminding people to use them - might encourage workers to get more exercise, a new study suggests. That sort of ...