Scientific Articles

10,000 steps is not based on medical or scientific research. 10,000 steps became the unofficial benchmark for our daily steps goal in the 1960s, thanks to a Japanese pedometer. The Japanese character for 10,000 looks like a person walking, so it just sort of became the default over time.

Body composition is reviewed as a composite of several traits each with their distinctive genetic basis, including major effects of genes at single loci. Studies involving twins, adopted offspring, and other family relatives have demonstrated the high heritability (0.4–0.7) of many of the traits involved.