The new findings showed significant health benefits even among adults who didn't reach the 10,000-step a day mark.
The fitness goal of 10,000 steps a day is widely promoted, but a new study suggests that logging even 7,000 daily steps may go a long way toward better health.
Lower risk of premature death was observed for both women and men, Blacks and whites, who took 7,000 steps or more, according to results published this month in“We saw that you can get a lot of benefit from 7,000 steps,” said study author Amanda Paluch, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Results showed that people appeared to gain more health benefits the more steps they took, with the greatest statistically significant reduction in mortality risk occurring between 7,000 and 10,000 steps, Paluch said. After that, the benefits leveled off. There was no relationship between step intensity, or speed, and mortality.
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