Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day? - Shannon Odell

sedentary activity for two weeks become more anxious, tired, and hostile. When adults are randomly assigned to reduce their daily step count, 88 percent become more depressed. Within one week of becoming more sedentary, they report a 31 percent decline in life satisfaction. The average daily step count required to induce feelings of anxiety and dep

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“A lot of early studies adopted that 10,000 steps message, and it’s not a bad thing: doing more steps rather than doing less is always going to be recommended,” Dr Aguiar says. “But if you want to be accurate with what the science is showing, less than that is adequate.”