The 10k step has been going viral for months now. The theory posits that 10 thousand steps a day is the minimum step count that should be completed by every individual to stay healthy and reach their ...

10,000 steps a day. How often do we use this as a yardstick of a healthy lifestyle? It’s the number we try to reach on our fitness watches – a standard benchmark of an acceptable minimal amount of ...

Current patent pending for step count model (application #17/733275). Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and staying abreast of news, but also for ...

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 ...

If you're reading this, chances are you've counted your steps before. But do you know how many steps are in a mile? Probably not. Well, there are certain factors that influence how many you rack up - ...