Walking is generally promoted as the most accessible exercise of them all: no equipment, easy to squeeze into daily life, and accessible to just about anyone. Over the years, this number-10,000 steps ...

The benefits of a good walk for heart health have been highlighted so often over the years, you'd think we'd be clocking up our 10,000 steps every day as a nation with ease. But whether it's a time or ...

Walking 7,000 steps a day can cut your risk of dementia by 38%. Even small increases—from 2,000 to 4,000 steps—offer meaningful health benefits. You don’t need a fitness tracker or perfect ...

The idea that you need to log 10,000 steps a day for good health has been health gospel for ages. But as Women's Health previously reported this year, the 10,000-a-day steps goal (which roughly ...

You may not need as many steps as you thought. Ten thousand steps per day has been widely recommended as the standard benchmark for physical activity — but a new study suggests that just 7,000 could ...

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Are you a step-checker? Do you look at your phone, watch, or other activity tracker a few times a day, to see if you’ve hit the 10,000 steps mark yet? Do you feel guilty if your step count doesn’t ...

A new meta review published in the Lancet officially confirmed that we've been calculating our step count number all wrong. The new findings suggest that you can actually reap the major health ...