Walking 7000 steps a day may be just as powerful as hitting the much-hyped 10,000-step goal when it comes to reducing the risk of early death and disease. A sweeping global review of 57 studies shows ...

Some years back, on a New Year’s morning in the mid-1980s, I poured myself a cup of coffee, sat down with my goal-setting notebook, and visualized living in a house in the hills above Santa Barbara.

How many steps should you really take in a day? We're often told that 10,000 steps is the gold standard for keeping healthy. But where does this number actually come from, and is it accurate?