{"id":42633,"date":"2023-08-11T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=42633"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T09:51:01","slug":"walking-4000-steps-a-day-lowers-your-risk-of-dying-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/walking-4000-steps-a-day-lowers-your-risk-of-dying-dak\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking 4,000 steps a day lowers your risk of dying: DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar, Aug 11<\/strong><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>Doctors&nbsp;Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said walking fewer steps a day significantly reduces a person\u2019s risk of early death. ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you walk just 4, 0000 steps a day, you can substantially lower your risk of dying,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Hassan said&nbsp;according to a large study published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology on Wednesday walking 3,967 steps a day reduces the risk of death from any cause, while taking 2,337 steps a day can significantly decrease the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For every additional 1000 steps a day, the risk of dying from any cause falls by 15%, while a 500 extra steps leads to a 7 per cent drop in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat shows the more you walk, the greater the health benefits,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Hassan said researchers of the study found that adults 60 and older who walked between 6,000 and 10,000 steps a day saw a 42% reduction in risk of early death, while people under 60 who walked between 7,000 and 13,000 steps a day had a 49% reduction in risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis gives us to understand that health benefits are more if we start early,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DAK President said for years, it has been unclear how many minimum steps we should thrive for to start seeing health benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStudies on walking are many, but this one for the first time sets a prescription dose for lifestyle correction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Nisar said the study recommendation suits our population. Most Kashmiris are not up to extreme physical exercises. These fewer steps are doable for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the message of the study is loud and clear. Walk more and sit less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Physical activity is good for health and sedentary lifestyle invites huge lot of health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs per World Health Organization (WHO) data, insufficient physical activity is the fourth most frequent cause of death in the world, with 3.2 million deaths a year related to physical inactivity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Aug 11:&nbsp;Doctors&nbsp;Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said walking fewer steps a day significantly reduces a person\u2019s risk of early death. , \u201cIf you walk just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,54],"tags":[1032,128,1033],"class_list":["post-42633","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-kashmir","category-latest-news","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-latestnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42652,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42633\/revisions\/42652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}