{"id":34570,"date":"2022-03-14T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34570"},"modified":"2022-03-14T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:28:41","slug":"why-10000-steps-a-day-is-not-the-holy-grail-study-finds-6000-8000-cuts-risk-of-an-early-death-in-over-60s-in-half-and-doing-more-has-no-added-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/14\/why-10000-steps-a-day-is-not-the-holy-grail-study-finds-6000-8000-cuts-risk-of-an-early-death-in-over-60s-in-half-and-doing-more-has-no-added-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 10,000 steps a day is NOT the holy grail: Study finds 6,000-8,000 cuts risk of an early death in over-60s in HALF and doing more has no added benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30435\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-770x418.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-500x272.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-360x196.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking.png 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ten thousand daily steps is not the sweet spot for health, according to a study that suggests just 6,000 is enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10603643\/Why-10-000-steps-day-NOT-holy-grail-Study-finds-6-000-8-000-cuts-risk-early-death-HALF.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ten thousand daily steps is not the sweet spot for health, according to a study that suggests just 6,000 is enough. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34571,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34570\/revisions\/34571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}