Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

gm, if you don't know the story behind 10k steps, you're in for a treat

japanese scientists hooked up step counters to japanese office workers because japenese office workers were healthier than other countries

they got 8k steps on average

usa heart doctors looked at this data and said us can do better

and added 2k

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like with recycling and climate change — plastic companies literally knowingly lied to all of us, recycling had no prospect of working at all

yet we recycle in vain while leaving the true causes of climate change — fossil fuels and eating meat — without any action whatsoever

so what do you do to avoid heart disease?

1. give up on sugar
2. give up on sodium
3. give up on animal products

it is that simple yet the notion is *so* alien to americans like giving up cigarettes was in 80s — that the surgeon general literally says that no one would listen if they said to stop eating meat

some research papers i gathered at magicpill.link if you're into science

10k steps has no scientific causality data, and even worse — research points at the fact that there are diminishing returns *after 3500 steps a day*

us doctors, once again, gave people false confidence that people are doing right things to stay healthy, while hiding true reasons behind obesity and coronary disease

yes 10k is arbitrary but the more steps you walk the lower your risk of all-cause mortality

ser can you read the research you cite, please?

> over the cut-off point of 3867 steps/day for all-cause mortality and only 2337 steps for CV mortality

yes 10k is arbitrary but the more steps you walk the lower your risk of all-cause mortality


https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article/30/18/1975/7226309

i heard the character 万 is also part of the story, not sure if that’s true though