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 ...

Roman men probably didn’t think about their step count, and they didn’t need a Fitbit to cover a lot of ground. When I heard about the daily step count of Roman men, I was curious. I recently ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new study found that walking as few as 5,000 steps ...