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A recent study, the most comprehensive to date, reveals that walking 4,000 steps per day can reduce your chance of death from any cause. The exciting aspect is that the more you walk, the bigger the health advantages.
For years, it has been unclear how many steps we should strive for or if the rewards we can reap are limited.
Even with relatively little activity, the researchers discovered that persons who walk at least 4,000 steps each day have improved cardiovascular health.
They examined data from 17 previous research including a whopping 2,26,889 people and tracked their journey for an average of seven years to determine the influence of varying daily step counts on health.
The findings, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, revealed that walking 3,967 steps per day reduces the chance of death from any cause.
Surprisingly, walking 2,337 steps per day can greatly reduce the chance of dying from cardiovascular disease.
In fact, every additional 1,000 steps reduces the risk of dying from any cause by 15%, whereas just 500 extra steps reduces cardiovascular disease-related mortality by 7%.
“Our study confirms that the more you walk, the better,” said Maciej Banach, a professor of cardiology at the Medical University of Lodz in Poland. We discovered that this was true for both men and women, regardless of age, and regardless of whether you reside in a temperate, subtropical, or subpolar section of the world, or a location with a mix of temperatures.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), insufficient physical exercise is the fourth leading cause of death in the world, accounting for nearly 3.2 million deaths per year.
Meanwhile, the ideal range for persons aged 60 and up is between 6,000 and 10,000 steps each day. But hold on, there’s more!
The team also descended into the world of super-steppers to investigate the effects of walking up to a staggering 20,000 steps a day, equivalent to trekking 9-10 miles.
To their surprise, the health advantages continued to skyrocket, with no evidence of decreasing returns. However, the team warns that evidence on these “high steppers” is still limited, and further research is needed.
Source:IT
