I’ll be the first to admit that I try to do it. I even tell people to do it, because really, how bad can it be? But is there anything behind the 10,000-steps-per-day mantra? Probably not.
Recent research has found that the 10,000-steps-per-day idea goes back to 1965 with the marketing of a Japanese pedometer. The product translated to “the 10,000-step meter,” and since then, the idea has just kind of stuck around without any evidence indicating that 10,000 steps per day is indeed a magical number with health benefits.
