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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

12 June 2019

Forget 10,000 steps a day. Modern sports science and evolutionary biology now tell us how much exercise the human body really needs

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