Also take 7,000 steps brings great benefits in terms of prevention and mental health: 10,000 are even better but are not an obligation.
If the milestone of 10,000 steps a day seems unreachable to you, Start walking without being discouraged: The benefits of the walking on body health and brain are also seen with many less steps. 7,000 steps are enough To lower the individual risk of chronic and lethal diseases and protect mental health and cognitive functions: a study published on Lancet Public Health which could be subtitled as follows: The important thing is to start.
Minutes or steps: how much physical activity should we do?
The amount of physical activity recommended for a healthy adult is 150 minutes of exercising moderate intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. However, understanding what she counts for moderate or intense is not so simple and it is more practical to count the steps taken during the day to understand how much we managed to win sedentary lifestyle.
The exact origin of the “rule” of the 10,000 daily steps is not clear, but it seems to have been initially widespread by a Japanese marketing company that wanted to sponsor a steps counts. Science, however, seems to recognize this recommendation a certain validity.
Evident prevention also to 7,000 steps
A group of epidemiologists from the universities of Sydney, Australia, and of the European Universidad de Madrid in Spain has revised 57 studies published in the last 10 years on the benefits of the physical activity evaluated through the number of steps taken. The protagonists were hundreds of thousands of adults who in most cases did not suffer from particular health problems at the beginning of the research.
Naturally, Those who had moved more had reported the greatest advantages (and 10,000 steps were therefore better than 7,000). But also to take 7,000 steps a day, a more realistic goal for many people, was associated with significant positive effects on health.
Even those who had followed this “minor” milestone in fact reported a 47% reduction in the risk of death for each cause Compared to those who had made only 2,000 steps per day; A risk reduced by 25% of cardiovascular diseases, a 37% decrease in the risk of getting cancer, 38% of getting sick of dementia and 22% of developing depression.
Walk: the steps, you will count them later
For the authors of the study, it is very important communicate two messages. The first is that it’s not that 10,000 steps hurt: Whoever succeeds, still obtains greater benefits, although not so much higher. The second is that for some people even 7,000 steps a day could constitute an intimacy goal, and that point it is better to give up counting and starting to move.
Indeed 4,000 steps a day also reduced the risk of death during the sequel to 36% studies compared to 2,000 steps only. In short, to feel good, every step matters.
