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You Don't Really Need 10,000 Daily Steps to Stay Healthy - Scientific American

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New research points to different step counts based on age and fitness level

May 1, 2023 3 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm You Don't Really Need 10,000 Daily Steps to Stay Healthy New research points to different step counts based on age and fitness level By Lydia Denworth Jay Bendt In 2022 I averaged 9,370 steps a day. I know. I counted. Or rather my iPhone counted. I carried it everywhere-not so much to catch every call as to catch every step. My daily aim? Ten thousand steps. Because goals. Yet the concept of taking 10,000 steps a day to maintain health is rooted not in science but in a marketing gimmick. In the 1960s a company in Japan invented an early pedomet

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