It's not just how many steps you take. It's how you take them.
that looked at the link between steps taken and the risk for death and found something novel. It's not just how many steps you take. It's how you take them.— a longitudinal study of British adults that collects a lot of data over time, but does not collect step counts.
And it wasn't just step counts. The authors wondered if all steps are the same. After all, there are the steps we take just sort of living our lives — walking to the water cooler, that sort of thing. The study called these"incidental steps." Then there were the purposeful steps — the steps we take when we are actually going somewhere. They also measured something they call the"peak-30 cadence" — think of it as the peak walking speed during the day.
All studies like this are plagued by what we often call"reverse causation." Maybe steps don't promote health; maybe healthier people take more steps. The authors account for this by excluding deaths that happened within 2 years of the step assessment — so we can be somewhat reassured that these weren't people who were very ill when the step counts were done.
In the end, these data support what really is becoming a huge body of literature suggesting that sedentary lifestyles increase mortality risk. It also tells us that although 10,000 steps is really good, any steps are good, so if you usually get 2000, shoot for 4000. If get 4000, shoot for 8000.
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