How many of you aim for 10k steps a day? And how many of you know where this “gold” number actually comes from? Probably not that many of you, right? The 10k-step myth was originally a marketing tool, dating back to 1965, when a Japanese company made a device called the Manpo-Kei, which translates as the 10,000-step meter. He suggested that when citizens went from an average of 4,000 steps a day to 10,000, they burned about 400 more calories a day. The thing is, science shows that these results…
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