{"id":3447,"date":"2026-09-23T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:03:42","slug":"faster-walking-pace-may-offset-lower-daily-step-counts-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=3447","title":{"rendered":"Faster Walking Pace May Offset Lower Daily Step Counts, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking faster may help make up for a lower daily step count, according to a new observational study published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bjsports-2025-111173\">British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/a>. Researchers from the University of Sydney and Monash University&#8217;s Turner Institute analyzed wrist-worn activity tracker data from about 65,000 UK Biobank participants, with a median follow-up of eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the least active group, people who took fewer than 5,000 steps a day but reached a pace of about 80 steps per minute during their briskest half-hour had a 28% lower risk of death from any cause during follow-up, similar to those taking 5,000 to 7,500 steps at a slower pace. The lowest risk appeared among people taking 7,500 to 10,000 steps at around 100 steps per minute.<\/p>\n<p>The authors suggest sustaining 90 to 100 steps per minute for 30 minutes a day &#8220;may be a promising target.&#8221; Because the study was observational, it shows an association rather than cause and effect.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking faster may help make up for a lower daily step count, according to a new observational study published in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}