You don't need to walk 10,000 steps a day to achieve meaningful health benefits — 7,000 steps a day, about 3 miles depending on the length of your stride — will suffice, according to a new study out this week in a major medical journal.
⁘Although 10,000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7,000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a more realistic and achievable target for some,⁘ wrote researchers in the July 23 online issue of The Lancet Public Health.
Local physicians praised the study, and a few Long Islanders out exercising on a hot Friday made clear that getting in their daily walks was a priority.
Elisa Squatrito, 61, of Mount Sinai, says she walks two to three times a day, ⁘and I try to put in 7 to 8 thousand, to 10 thousand steps a day,⁘ using an app on her iPhone to keep track.
She was not surprised the study reflected 7,000 steps a day being a healthy amount to walk, and said a pet helped to give her an incentive to walk everyday.
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The researchers found that: ⁘First, even modest daily step counts were associated with health benefits. Second, 7,000 steps per day was associated with sizeable risk reductions across most outcomes, compared with the reference of 2,000 steps per day. Third, even though risk continued to decrease beyond 7,000 steps per day, it plateaued for some outcomes.⁘
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