10,000 Steps a Day Is a Myth. The Number to Stay Healthy Is Far Lower.

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10,000 steps has become a default goal for fitness trackers, but the number to stay healthy is actually much lower WSJWhatsNow

That threshold, often billed as the minimum for good health, originated in marketing, not medicine, when a Japanese company launched a pedometer in 1965 named, in English, the “10,000-step meter” with the slogan “Let’s walk 10,000 steps a day.

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