{"id":988,"date":"2014-07-07T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T00:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2014-07-07T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T00:13:41","slug":"good-things-come-small-packages-come-small-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/good-things-come-small-packages-come-small-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Good things come in small packages &#8212; and come from small steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/exercise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-989\" src=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/exercise-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"exercise\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/exercise-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/exercise.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week for my Health123.com blog, I look at the power of small changes and how, over time, they can have a big positive impact. It&#8217;s not just intuitive truth, but scientifically proved.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A lot of the literature and idea-banking of small changes is about diabetes, in part because it is such a huge problem, but also because it appears so responsive to taking incremental positive steps. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/diabetes\/expert-blog\/diabetes-lifestyle\/BGP-20056535\">Mayo Health blog post<\/a>\u00a0covers how little things can both impact your health post diagnosis, and even prevent it from becoming a part of your medical record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Health 123 isn\u2019t alone in the quest for doing more by doing a little over and over again. Vancouver Canucks president Trevor Linden is the face of a <a href=\"http:\/\/dontchangemuch.ca\/about\/\">new organization<\/a> focused on men\u2019s health that\u2019s committed to making small changes, too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about some of the studies, and get some tips for making small changes <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.health123.com\/2014\/06\/30\/small-change-of-the-week-the-beauty-of-small-things\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week for my Health123.com blog, I look at the power of small changes and how, over time, they can have a big positive impact. It&#8217;s not just intuitive truth, but scientifically proved. A lot of the literature and idea-banking of small changes is about diabetes, in part because it is such a huge problem,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[744,699,17,745],"tags":[807,746,748,747],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","category-health123-com","category-heatlh","category-these-feet-were-made-for-walking","tag-health123-com","tag-mayohealth-com","tag-trevor-linden","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}