You Don’t Need 10,000 Steps a Day to Improve Your Health, Research Shows

The 10,000 steps goal is one of the most successful pieces of marketing ever accidentally mistaken for medical advice. Here’s the truth. In 1965, a Japanese company called Yamasa released a pedometer called the Manpo-kei—which translates directly to “10,000 steps meter”—riding the fitness wave left over from the Tokyo Olympics. The number wasn’t a medical…