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The 10,000-step question: How many do you really need to walk each day?
Counting steps is more complicated than it looks.
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Some studies suggest it is not the number of steps that counts but how "long" the walk is done.
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Jo Ellison
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How many steps do you walk each day? In 2017, I wrote a column about the discovery that, on average, I covered 3,000 steps a day. I had assumed that the simple act of life in the metropolis of London fried the calories away.
Sadly, this proved not to be so. Thanks to Apple Health, I discovered my activity levels were bordering on zero, and I was on the road to atrophy.
