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Is it true that … you need to take 10,000 steps a day to be healthy?

The fitness benchmark has surprisingly unscientific origins – yet it does contain more than a kernel of truthThe idea that we need to walk 10,000 steps a day originated not in medical research but in a 1960s marketing…

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Reported by The Guardian.

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