Health Check: do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?
- Written by Corneel Vandelanotte, Professorial Research Fellow: Physical Activity and Health, CQUniversity Australia
Walking has a variety of health benefits.From shutterstock.com
Regular walking produces many health benefits, including reducing our risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression.
Best of all, it’s free, we can do it anywhere and, for most of us, it’s relatively easy to fit into our daily routines.
We often hear 10,000 as the...
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