A new worldwide meta-analysis has looked at the minimum number of steps needed to reduce the risk of dying from any cause and cardiovascular disease. The study shows that it takes fewer steps than we first thought to reap the health benefits of walking.

We probably all know someone obsessed with the number of steps they take in a day, regularly looking at their fitness tracker, determined to reap the health benefits associated with getting to that magical 10,000-step benchmark. But do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day to see benefits?

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To answer that question, researchers from the University of Lodz in Poland have led the world’s largest meta-analysis into the health benefits of walking to determine how many steps are needed to reduce the risk of dying.

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