10,000 steps a day helps you lose weight and also prevent nutrition, cardiovascular and lung diseases. And based on this magic number is the booming success that pedometers enjoy nowadays. Pedometers are the small devices that placed on your belt, wrist or in your belt measure the number of steps you have taken during the day. Pretty cool.
The Japanese use pedometers for over 10 years. They call them "mempo-kei" which literally means "the device of 10,000 steps". Its Japanese name tells the secret of balanced and healthy life.
The 10,000 daily steps a day weight loss secret is known for about 20 years. But people found it impossible to count the number of steps they took every day. Thus a group a bright minds created a small electronic device to count the steps you make based on the movement of your body. The pedometer was born. A great fitness gadget.
The first pedometers were used for studies to test the theory. Only after the efficiency of the 10,000 a day weight loss plan proved its success the mass production of pedometers started. Now you can buy pedometers even in supermarkets sometimes. Everyone can count the number of steps they do daily. It is a cool fact to know about your daily life. If you are a couch potato you can just count the number of steps to the fridge and back to the couch and multiply that to the number of trips per day.
As I have told you it has been proven that by walking 10,000 steps daily you will lose weight. Many studies proved it. All you have to do is make sure your pedometer displays 10,000 steps at the end of the day. Not that easy as it sounds. You have to do it daily and you have to do some serious walking.
Taking long walks is a great way to lose weight. In fact any form of exercising is healthy and helps you lose weight. The simplest and effective form of exercising is walking. You do it daily. All you have to do is walk more daily and you will lose weight in no time.
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