环球时报 | 每天一万步真的有益健康吗？

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10,000 steps a day: Too low? Too high? 每天一万步：太少还是太多？ Despite the recommendations of pedometers everywhere, there's nothing scientific to the goal of walking 10,000 steps a day. The concept of taking 10,000 steps a day to maintain health is rooted not in science but in marketing gimmick. 尽管到处都有关于使用计步器的建议，但每天走一万步的目标并不科学。每天走一万步保持健康的概念并非基于科学，而是一种营销噱头。 In the 1960s a company in Japan invented an early pedometer. Because the Japanese character for "10,000" looks like a person walking, the company called its device the 10,000-step meter. 在20世纪60年代，日本一家公司发明了早期的计步器。因为日语中的“万”字看起来像一个人在走路，所以该公司将其设备称为“万步计”。 "It was just sort of a catchy phrase," says I-Min Lee, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School. "Sure, if you get 10,000 steps ………………………………