The fitness community regularly touts the health benefits of getting in 10,000 steps per day. But a new study says that a good deal fewer steps can still deliver significant benefits, including a 47% ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new study found that walking as few as 5,000 steps ...

In good news for office workers, a new study from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre (Australia) has found increasing your step count may counteract the health consequences of too much ...

It seems so long ago now that we were first told to aim for the ‘gold standard’ of 10,000 steps a day for our health, that this number rarely goes challenged. But is it really a solid recommendation?

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers from Japan evaluated the effectiveness of smartphone-based programs that conduct mall walking in increasing the daily step ...

The Apple Watch does a lot, which can be a blessing and a curse. Perhaps its most popular features are its various health-tracking technologies that have become common in most modern smartwatches.

Roman men probably didn’t think about their step count, and they didn’t need a Fitbit to cover a lot of ground. When I heard about the daily step count of Roman men, I was curious. I recently ...