Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?

Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?

We are reg­u­lar­ly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. How­ev­er, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exact­ly a num­ber anchored in sci­ence. Rather, it’s a prod­uct of mar­ket­ing. Accord­ing to a Har­vard med­ical web­site, that fig­ure goes back to “1965, when a Japan­ese com­pa­ny made a device named Man­po-kei, which trans­lates to ’10,000 steps meter.’ ”…

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