Africa-Press – Lesotho. It would appear that the frequent exhortation to walk 10,000 steps a day to ensure a healthy life owes more to the marketing guru and his alluring campaigns than with hard medical evidence.
The hikes you need to live a longer life seem to be a lot shorter than one thought: only 7,000 steps a day will reduce the risk of mortality, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal.
The research suggests that older adults (those above the age of 60) who walk from around 3,000 steps to around 7,000 have a 50 percent higher chance to live longer.
Younger adults need to show a bit more of an effort – however, they can still show an improvement by taking between 8,000 and 10,000 steps a day. However, according to kinesiologist Amanda Paluch cited by Axios, it is not an “all or nothing” situation.
You don’t have to increase the amount of steps dramatically, and there is definitely no need to become desperate if you don’t meet your daily target. When it comes to the often repeated recommendation of 10,000 steps per day, the study pointed out that there was no evidence to support the claim that this exact number of steps benefits one’s health.
Despite being widely promoted as a general health recommendation, this number originates from a marketing campaign in Japan, rather than from actual scientific studies.
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