Walking can help reduce your risk of illness and improve mental and physical health. But it's an old marketing myth that the optimal number is 10,000 steps a day. For health, researchers found ...

Scott Luu runs a YouTube channel and his podcast, Dreamlet. How much of a difference does walking 10,000 steps every day actually make? Well, I decided to find out by doing it for 30 days.

Walking 10,000 steps has been the recommended daily step count for decades. A 2023 study suggests that walking 8,000 steps a few times a week is enough to improve heart health, lift mood ...

The CDC recommends 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity a week, and walking is a great way to make that happen. For many people, 10,000 steps a day is the golden number that they ...

It’s the fountain of youth, if you will.” Del Pozo Cruz and his team recently published a similar study that found walking 10,000 steps a day lowered risk for dementia by 50%. Risk decreased ...

David Paul hosts Walking Is Fitness, a daily ten-minute podcast helping people to begin a new fitness journey that sticks. It all began for me with a one-year public commitment to walk 20,000 ...

How long it will take you to get in this many steps is also pretty individualized: “If you’re walking at a moderate pace of approximately 3.0 mph, or 20 minutes per mile, it would take ...

They concluded that a habit of walking just under 4,000 steps per day reduced the risk of dying from any cause, including from cardiovascular disease. That translates into a 30- to 45-minute walk ...