According to fitness experts, a person should walk about 10,000 steps in a day to stay healthy. People are often seen doing this too. They believe in some logic of science behind this, while it is not so at all. Dr. Eimin Lee, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an expert on step count and health, and colleagues conducted a study in 2019. In which it was found that women who walked 4,400 steps in a day reduced the risk of sudden death by 40%.
Walking 7500 steps daily is very beneficial
Women who walked more than 5,000 steps a day were also found to have a lower risk of premature death, but this benefit was limited to walking 7500 steps a day. That is, according to the report, it can be said that if you walk less than 10 thousand steps every day, the benefits are more.
There is no need to walk 10 thousand steps for long life
Last year, research conducted on 5,000 middle-aged men and women found that walking 10,000 steps a day is not necessary for longevity. The study found that people who walked about 8,000 steps a day were half as likely to die prematurely from heart disease or any other cause as those who walked 4,000 steps a day. There was no harm in walking 10,000 steps daily, but there was no significant benefit either.
In a 2005 study in Ghent, Belgium, local citizens were given pedometers and asked to walk at least 10,000 steps per day. About 660 women and men were involved in this study and only 8 percent of these people completed the target of 10,000 steps, but in this study that lasted for four years, no one could meet the target of 10,000 steps for more days. .
Time recommendation is more effective than steps
According to the Doctor Lee report, if a person takes a few more steps in the number of steps he walks daily, it is not enough. Physical activity guidelines issued by the US and other governments recommend time rather than steps.
150 minutes of exercise per week
According to the study, a person must do 150 minutes of exercise along with his daily activity. Also, 30 minutes of exercise every day is important.
Walking 7 to 8 thousand steps daily is enough
According to Dr. Lee, if the exercise is converted into steps, then there will be 16000 steps according to the daily. A person walks about 5,000 steps a day during everyday activities. If 2 to 3 thousand steps are increased in this, then 7 to 8 thousand steps are enough in a day.
The marketing strategy of the company was 10 thousand steps
According to Dr. Lee, the target of 10,000 steps was very popular in Japan in the 1960s. After the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a watchmaker strategized marketing pedometers to focus on fitness. 10,000 steps meter was written on it in the Japanese language. Since then 10,000 steps have become the standard for fitness tracking devices.
