It seems that the risk of death from heart disease, cancer, and others decreases with the increase in the number of steps a person walks daily, regardless of the speed of walking.

Most of the previous studies that examined the relationship between number of steps and death focused on the elderly, or the sick, but Pedro San Maurice - researcher at the American National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland - studied with his colleagues a diverse group of adults, including 4,840 people, who were wearing measuring devices Acceleration between 2003 and 2006 in order to measure their physical activity.

Referring to the death certificates of some of the participants, during the study period set by the researchers at the end of 2015, they discovered that people who were walking 8 thousand steps per day decreased their risk of death during the study period by 51%, compared to people whose number of daily steps reached 4 thousand steps, while it decreased The risk of death for people who were walking 12,000 steps per day is 65%. The rate of steps taken per minute did not appear to have any effect on the risk of death.

The authors of the research indicate that their results do not provide conclusive evidence that increasing the number of daily steps reduces the risk of death in a specific period of time, because they only monitor the movement of participants, without interference to control their walking habits.

* Source: Nature Magazine