Step on it! Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds | Health
How fast you walk could be just as important for your health as how many steps you take each day, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Southern Denmark found that 10,000 steps each day is the “sweet spot” to help lower the risk of disease and death. They also found that a faster pace, such as a brisk power walk, can have even greater benefits.
The data was collated as part of the largest study tracking step counts in relation to health outcomes.
Researchers monitored 78,500 UK adults between 2013 and 2015 using wearable trackers and compared this with their health outcomes seven years later . The results were published in the journals JAMA Internal Medicine and JAMA Neurology.
Dr Matthew Ahmadi, the co-lead author of the paper and a research fellow at the University of Sydney, said the study found