How many steps do you need in a day to be healthy? The official number just changed

The Texas Heart Institute has a new ruling, and the answer may surprise you.

“We believe that the right step count is somewhere between about seven and 8000,” said Dr. Joseph Rogers, Director of the Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine. “You begin to get those benefits at around 2,500 steps. There’s a pretty steep curve where the benefit continues to increase as you get up to around 7-8000 steps per day and then the curve begins to flatten. So, you do get some incremental benefit if you get up to 10,000 or 12,000. But the incremental benefit becomes less at that point.”

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