{"id":36788,"date":"2022-09-16T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=36788"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:22:12","slug":"do-you-really-need-to-walk-10000-steps-a-day-magic-number-was-invented-in-a-clever-japanese-marketing-ploy-after-the-1964-olympics-still-no-evidence-to-back-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/16\/do-you-really-need-to-walk-10000-steps-a-day-magic-number-was-invented-in-a-clever-japanese-marketing-ploy-after-the-1964-olympics-still-no-evidence-to-back-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you REALLY need to walk 10,000 steps a day? Magic number was invented in a clever Japanese marketing ploy after the 1964 Olympics&#8230; still &#8216;NO evidence&#8217; to back it"},"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>For decades, 10,000 daily steps has been held up as the holy grail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11206393\/Do-REALLY-need-walk-10-000-steps-day.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>For decades, 10,000 daily steps has been held up as the holy grail. Read More &nbsp;<\/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-36788","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\/36788","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=36788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36789,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions\/36789"}],"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=36788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}