How many steps per day required for healthy lifestyle? Find out

It has been suggested for a long time that 10,000 steps a day are a minimum requirement to stay fit and healthy. However, what if we told you that you can lead a healthy lifestyle with less than 5,000 steps a day?

A team from the Medical University of Lodz in Poland and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US conducted a study with more than 226,000 people, concluding that around 4,000 steps are enough to reduce various health scares. Every extra 1,000 steps after that will help reduce the risk of dying early by 15 per cent up to 20,000 steps.