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Movement
Steps, walking, and what activity does and does not do to the arithmetic.
If they get five minutes to smoke, you get five minutes to walk
OpinionTen laps of a small office is 500 steps. On finding the movement already sitting in a working day, what changes when there are children at home, and why the target is 12,500.
4 September 2026 · 8 min read
How many steps a day?
10,000 came from a 1965 pedometer advert, not from medicine. What the research since has found, and why walking often moves the scale less than the arithmetic suggests.
23 August 2026 · 4 min read
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