Is It Necessary To Walk More Than 10,000 Steps A Day?

The idea of 10,000 steps a day originated from an advertisement campaign of a Japanese Company for their step meter in 1965. So this idea originated from a marketing perspective rather than a specific health objective. Dr Rajiva Gupta shares, "However, it ignores a fundamental truth of physical activity - ‘something is better than nothing'. Most people will take somewhere between 5000 and 7500 steps a day even if they lead largely sedentary lives. If you add 30 minutes of walking to your daily routine, that will account for an extra 3000-4000 steps and bring you close to that 10,000-step threshold." He adds, "But walking fewer steps still has a benefit. In a study in 2010, those who averaged 7000-10,000 steps per day did just as well as those who walked more than 10,000 steps."