Brits do an average of 6,478 steps a day – but feel guilty about it. A poll of 2,000 adults found 53 per cent don’t meet the perceived daily step count target of ...

Weight loss stories often sound dramatic. One day someone decides to change their life, the next day they are running 10 kilometres before sunrise and eating boiled vegetables for dinner. But real ...

Brits do an average of 6,478 steps a day – but many feel guilty about it. A poll of 2,000 adults found nearly half think the “ideal” daily target is between 8,000 and 11,000 steps. As a result, four ...

This project shows how to build exterior deck steps in a way that attacks the biggest long-term problem head-on: rot. Instead of letting treated wood sit directly on wet concrete and slowly fail, the ...

But researchers now say the famous 10,000-step goal was never actually based on strong clinical evidence. The number reportedly originated from a Japanese marketing campaign linked to an early ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that increasing (and maintaining) step counts to around 8,500 steps a day is helpful for maintaining significant weight loss long term. Experts say ...

The benefits of walking cannot be over-extolled: one study found that a 12-week walking program significantly reduced anxiety and improved cardiorespiratory fitness and quality of life in middle-aged ...

This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism‘s 2025 Data Fellowship. It is Part 1 of a Bay Area News Group series examining why homelessness is so severe ...