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The risk continued to drop with more steps, but then plateaued at about 7,500 steps. The optimal step count for people younger than 60, though, was about 8,000 to 10,000 a day, per a separate study.
One thing to keep in mind is that the CDC recommends that adults get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous-intensity exercise per week, so if walking is your main form of exercise, you want to make ...
If you now walk 49 minutes per day or less, walking an extra 111 minutes per day — for a total of 160 — could help you live about 11 years longer, the study found.
Results showed that walking 3,867 steps daily was enough to begin reducing the risk of dying from any cause — and that just 2,337 steps per day could help reduce the risk of dying from heart ...
The CDC recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity (or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity, or an equivalent combination) per week.
You don’t have to aim for that often-touted 10,000 steps per day to see the benefits of getting more steps in. According to the study, walking at least 5,000 steps a day was associated with ...
The average American walks 3,000 to 4,000 steps per day, or roughly 1.5 to 2 miles, according to experts at the Mayo Clinic. Those who take less than 5,000 steps a day are considered sedentary, ...
Walking less that 3,000 steps per day was associated with a 300% increased risk of all-cause mortality compared to the 16,000 step group. To put that into perspective, all-cause mortality rates ...