The true number of steps we really need revealed

The latest science around walking suggests fewer than 10,000 steps is a sweet spot for many people.

Assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Massachusetts, Dr Amanda Paluch, says the idea of 10,000 steps a day originated 50 years ago from a marketing campaign in the 1964 Japan Olympics.

“You can think 10,000 steps a day is really a nice number when you think about promotion, it’s a nice clean number, so you can see how it stuck,” She told 3AW Breakfast.

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