A new study challenges the “10,000 steps a day” rule, suggesting you may need far fewer to keep weight from creeping back after dieting. Researchers analyzed thousands of adults and identified roughly 8,500 daily steps as a key threshold for maintaining weight loss. The takeaway: walking isn’t only for shedding pounds, but for protecting progress long term.
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