Do You Need 10,000 Steps? What the Step Count Research Actually Says

10,000 steps was a marketing number from a 1960s Japanese pedometer. The health benefit is real but the threshold is not. Here is what step count and mortality meta-analyses say about dose, starting points, and why you should not swap one universal number for another.

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