India, July 28 -- Walking around 7,000 steps a day may be enough to boost your brain health and lower the risk of several major diseases, a new study suggests.
The research, published in The Lancet Public Health, also found that people who walked this much had lower chances of getting cancer, heart disease, and dementia.
To reach this conclusion, researchers reviewed 31 different studies that looked at how step count affects health issues like heart problems, diabetes, depression, dementia, and early death.
They found that people who walked 7,000 steps daily had a 47 percent lower risk of dying early compared to those who only walked 2,000 steps. They also had a 25 percent lower risk of heart disease and a 38 percent lower risk of dement...