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Do you need to walk 10,000 steps a day?

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Conventional wisdom sets 10,000 steps per day as a good target. That source of that number, though, is as questionable as Hippocrates’ quotation.

Conventional wisdom sets 10,000 steps per day as a good target. That source of that number, though, is as questionable as Hippocrates’ quotation. Its origins lie not in a clinical trial, but a Japanese advertising campaign for a pedometer launched ah... [2980 chars]

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