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happy life. How many steps should I walk per day to

stay healthy? I gotta get in my steps. I'm sure you've even heard this before or set it to yourself.

And while it's great to be active and track your movement,

is 10,000 steps, really, the amount of steps you need to make a difference in your weight and health.

So I'm sure you've heard it all before, the 10,000 steps a day is the magic number of steps that you should reach every day in order to

be healthy and lose weight. Well the truth is that this number came from a

Japanese pedometer company to sell pedometers. It was completely fabricated with absolutely no experimental

basis. All they wanted to do was sell pedometers. So while it is good to get your steps in you

do not need to take that many steps specifically, particularly once during the day.

Now Google it and every blog I see out there says we need 10,000 steps a day to lose weight. That's exactly not true. I'll

give you my own example. As you know I used to be a big fat obese guy even though I was running a minimum of 3K, 3,000 meters per day and 30 miles per week going to the gym one hour every day and I was gaining

weight so the idea that we should be walking to lose weight is, in my experience,

patently not true.

So how many steps should you take? Well studies show that you really only need about 2,700 to 3,900 steps per day to get the benefit of walking. That's certainly nowhere near 10,000 steps

per day. Now the other thing that people should realize is this does not have to be on a

continuous basis in other words you don't have to walk 3,000 steps at a single time.

That's also not only not true, but may actually be better ways to get that amount of steps in place.

So as you know from my book The Energy Paradox,

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