The Lifesciences Magazine

Not Enough Time For Ten Thousand Steps? These Two Options Are Equally Advantageous, According To Studies It’s well known that doing ten thousand steps a day will enhance one’s health, but since it’s around five miles of walking, many people find it challenging to meet this goal. More effective strategies to obtain comparable health advantages without walking for at least an hour a day are now being shown by recent research. One method is to use the stairs, according a study involving more than 450,000 adults. The risk of cardiovascular disease was shown to be cut by 20% by climbing five flights of stairs every day, or approximately 50 steps, according to a study published in the medical journal Atherosclerosis. Furthermore, the study discovered that climbing in smaller increments throughout the day yields the same benefits as climbing five flights of stairs at once. “If you choose one flight of stairs, you go up it two to three times a day,” emergency medicine physician and  ABC Ne...