How 10,000 Daily Steps Can Outpace the Risk of Sedentary Death

In a time when a sedentary lifestyle has become the norm, a study from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre confirms that the simple act of walking an average of 10,000 steps a day can reduce the risk of death by 39 percent and cardiovascular disease by 21 percent, regardless of time spent sedentary. This research was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Involving over 72,000 individuals, the study stands out as the first of its kind to objectively measure, through wrist-worn wearables, the impact of daily steps on offsetting the dangers of prolonged sitting and inactivity. While it is not the first study to show the association between greater step counts, and separate studies have also linked high levels of sedentary behaviour with increased risks of cardiovascular disease and death, in a world where desk jobs and digital entertainment chain us to our seats, the research still serves as a call to action: the power to change our health destiny is quite literally at our feet....