The milestone was initially set by a Japanese pedometer company that was looking for something catchy for their advertising. Making things easier for them, the 10,000 number in Japanese looks vaguely like a person walking or running. You decide, here’s the Kanji symbol for 10K: 万 //

Singh points to studies that suggest an association between the number of steps you take and mortality. A 2023 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggested 2,600 to 2,800 daily steps was enough to produce health benefits, while a European study from 2022 found that increasing your step count by 1,000-step increments may lead to a 15% decrease in your risk of all-cause mortality. //

etba_ss
5 hours ago edited
The medicine and science fields should be viewed with the same amount of respect and intriguing that we do for lawyers and used car salesmen.

They are equally likely to be liars just trying to line their own pockets and bilk the system and screw people over.