Makers of smartwatches and other wearables have spent years trying to measure blood sugar without pricking your skin. The ...

Walking 10,000 steps takes roughly one to two and a half hours, depending on speed and stride. Shorter-legged people may reach 10,000 steps faster because they take more steps per mile. Regular ...

Your daily step count might reveal more than just your fitness progress. In a study of nearly 95,000 adults wearing activity trackers, lower step totals were linked to later Parkinson’s diagnoses.

Participants recorded an average of 9,446 daily steps. People in the highest step-count quintile, defined as 12,369 or more daily steps, tended to be younger and to have lower body mass index than ...

Mackenzie Long, a personal trainer in physical therapy and sports medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin, explains the health benefits of tracking steps.

The benefits of walking range from a lower risk of cardiovascular disease to extending your life on the whole. But getting more steps in can be a challenge, particularly when we spend so much time ...

Objective To examine the associations between the number of days per week achieving various daily step thresholds and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence in older women.

Step aside, outdated exercise goals. For years, 10,000 steps has been promoted by fitness trackers, health apps and medical professionals as the gold standard for daily physical activity. But if that ...

A short walk can clear the head, but a longer one can protect the heart. New research shows that walking for 10 to 15 minutes without stopping can lower heart disease risk more than quick strolls ...

A large study suggested that older women who took at least 4,000 steps 1-2 days per week had lower risks of death and heart disease. Participants who reached that threshold 3 or more days per week had ...

When Karolina Komarnicka hit a breaking point in her own mental health journey, she realized that despite the explosion of wellness apps promising calm and balance, none actually addressed why people ...