If you can’t achieve 10,000 steps a day, just working towards that goal can help. A new study shows that every time you walk more than 2,200 steps per day, up to about 10,000, your risk of heart disease and early death decreases, even if you walk for 20 minutes and spend the rest of the day sitting. It has been. guardian. Researchers at the University of Sydney analyzed data from 72,174 people in the UK Biobank who wore accelerometers for a week to monitor their exercise levels. The researchers followed this group for seven years, at which point participants had experienced 1,633 deaths and 6,190 cardiovascular events, and researchers found that taking more than 2,200 steps per day They found a lower risk of death and heart disease.Dr. Matthew Ahmadi as lead author of the study put it down“Every move counts.”
More steps would have been optimal. People who logged between 9,000 and 10,000 steps had a 39% lower risk of premature death and a 21% lower risk of heart disease. But “half of that effect was achieved with half the effort, about 4,000 to 4,500 steps per day.” health day. Risk was also reduced by recording more than 2,200 steps. This suggests that “the amount of physical activity needed to reduce mortality and accident risk may be lower than previously suggested.” release.Researchers whose research results have been published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, note that “sedentary time did not significantly alter the dose-response association of daily step count.” In other words, “Regardless of how much of a couch potato you are, the more steps you take each day, the lower your risk of early death and heart disease,” HealthDay reports. (More exercise stories.)
