Do you really need 10 000 steps a day?
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Most people in the United States take on average 4,000 to 5,000 paces a day. But researchers at Harvard Medical School found that older women who took about 7,500 steps a day had the same mortality risk level as their counterparts in the study who walked the entire 10,000 steps.