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Medscape
05-08-2025
- Health
- Medscape
Medical Myths: Steps Count, But Not to 10,000
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello, everyone. It's time for Toby's evening walk. You probably go for walks to get healthy, and you absolutely should. Regular physical activity is absolutely good for you, but you probably think that you need to get 10,000 steps a day. You absolutely do not. The 10,000 number is not based on science. It's a marketing slogan that got out of hand. One of the first step counters was made by Japanese company Yamasa Tokei Keiki Co, and called manpo-kei, which meant 10,000 step meter. Their marketing slogan was, let's walk 10,000 steps a day. Now, there's nothing wrong with walking 10,000 steps, but you would get the same benefit if you walked 9,000 steps if your baseline was to only walk 5,000. I'm not here to debunk walking, but you don't need a step counter, a pedometer, a smartwatch, or any other wearable technology. You just need to move more because the 10,000 number isn't really based on science. For Medscape, I'm Christopher Labos, with Toby.
Wall Street Journal
28-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Giada De Laurentiis Doesn't Want to Judge Your Cooking
From the moment she wakes up, Giada De Laurentiis is thinking about numbers. The first thing she does is check reports on her four restaurants from the night before. Then she puts on a pedometer to track the 8,000 steps she aims to get that day. Despite initial concerns from her film producer grandfather Dino De Laurentiis, the four-time Emmy winner rose to fame as one of the most prominent faces on early-2000s Food Network. Her first show, 'Everyday Italian,' premiered in 2003. 'When I started at Food Network, chefs weren't stars,' she says. 'All of a sudden we became these icons that nobody could have predicted.'
