In the last few years, the standard for every-day physical fitness has been the 10,000 steps a day rule. It's a simple, easy-to-measure, and popularly promoted measure of what it means to be healthy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Step counts have an inconsistent relationship with weight loss. Jose carlos cerdeno martinez/Moment via Getty Images Over the last ...

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 ...

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 ...