2024-03-13 02:32:36
The long-held number of 10,000 steps per day necessary to improve one’s health, created from scratch by a Japanese company 60 years ago, would ultimately be quite close to reality, shows a large study published in the “British Journal of Sports Medicine”.
The regularly mentioned goal of taking 10,000 steps per day may have come from an advertisement aimed at selling pedometers, but it seems to have been confirmed by a study which followed more than 72,000 people over a period of approximately 7 years. .
According to the results of the studyfrom 2200 steps per day, we can begin to observe a reduction in mortality and the cardiac incident rate in the group studied.
The benefits of walking, however, increase, reaching a peak between 9,500 and 11,000 steps per day. At this level of activity, participants were between 31 and 39% more likely to die during the period analyzed than those who limited themselves to fewer than 2,200 steps per day, the study shows. The percentages vary depending on the participants’ level of sedentary lifestyle, apart from their daily step count.
After this point, walking no longer seemed to bring additional benefits.
Last fall, an American study based on a dozen previous studies, it had determined that the benefits of walking begin to be felt from 2517 steps and reach their peak at 8763 steps.
Although the optimal number of steps varies between the two studies, one observation remains: walking helps reduce your risk of dying prematurely or developing heart disease.
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