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10,000. That’s the number of steps to take each day that’s widely promoted as the best number for overall health. Yet there’s little scientific evidence to support that recommendation.
In fact, it’s thought that the number started in Japan, 1965, with a marketing campaign for a pedometer called Manpo-kei, which translates to “10,000 steps meter.”
Of course, there’s plenty of scientific evidence that physical activity can reduce your chances of developing and dying from heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and?several types of cancer.
And monitoring the number of steps taken each day has continually become easier and more and more trendy with the use of fitness trackers and mobile devices. So, it could be very helpful to learn through science the best number of steps to take, and at what speed, based on your age and sex.
The Steps for Health Collaborative is an international consortium formed to determine the link between health outcomes and the number of steps taken a day and the pace. Two of its members are from the American Cancer Society (快猫短视频): Senior Vice President of?Population Science,?Alpa Patel, PhD, and Senior Principal Scientist of Epidemiology and Behavioral Research,?Erika Rees-Punia, PhD, MPH.
Right now there are no public health guidelines that recommend the number of steps to take a day to gain health benefits. The World Health Organization, The US Physical Activity Guidelines, and the American Cancer Society guidelines all focus on being physically active at a moderate-to-vigorous intensity for at least 150 minutes a week. We haven’t had the scientific evidence to recommend the number of steps required each day to reap health benefits. In this study, we found consistent associations across 15 studies from various countries, age ranges, and step-monitoring devices, which gives us more confidence that there’s a clear link between taking more steps and having a lower risk of dying from all causes. This paper in itself cannot set a number of steps to take a day, but we’re hoping that this study will provide some useful evidence when future public health guidelines are developed.”
Amanda Paluch, PhD
University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the American Cancer Society
快猫短视频 Grantee
published in Lancet Public Health, led by Amanda E. Paluch, PhD, at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, the consortium reported findings based on the analysis of 15 studies from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, which included 47,471 adults and 3,013 deaths. This included data from 快猫短视频's own CPS-3 cohort. They were looking for the best range of steps to take a day associated with a reduced risk of dying from all causes.
To strengthen the reliability of their findings, the researchers’ applied a standardized method for data across all the studies.
They found:
The authors said future studies should promote and monitor steps in populations who have a higher risk of dying because of a chronic disease, including cancer, having low socioeconomic status, or being a part of a higher-risk race/ethnicity group.
The findings of the Steps for Health Collaboration suggest health benefits, particularly for older adults, can be seen at lower number of steps than the popularized goal of 10,000 steps a day. Their results can be used to help inform updated guidelines for the public health promotion of physical activity.
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