Putting your best foot forward: getting 10,000 steps a day

Putting your best foot forward: getting 10,000 steps a day

March 6, 2019 6:38 pm MST.

10,000 is usually the golden number of steps to strive for in a day. But do we really need to take 10,000 steps? Rachelle Elsiufi finds out.

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