“Good luck!” reads the text from my editor that arrives at 7.53am. But I don’t need it. As personal challenges go, I’m not remotely intimidated by what’s on the agenda today. In the name of science, I have been tasked with hitting exactly 3,967 steps and making the most of every one. Easy.
If 3,967 steps a day seems precise, that is because it is. A study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology this week found it was the exact number at which the risk of dying from any cause started to reduce. Researchers found as few as 2,337 steps a day started to lessen the risk of dying from cardiovascular diseases.
