It doesn’t matter how much you sit — walking more could lower your risk of death and disease

Do you sit a lot during the day? Good news! A new study says that walking more can help your health, even if you sit for a long time. Researchers in Australia studied over 72,000 people. They found that people who walked more steps each day had a lower risk of death and heart problems. Walking up to 10,000 steps a day was good for them. This was true even if they sat a lot. Other studies showed that sitting too much is bad for your health. This new study shows that walking can help to **counteract** these bad effects. One of the researchers, Dr. Ahmadi, said that walking is not a complete fix for sitting too much. But he said that every little bit of movement helps. It's important to try to **offset** the bad effects of sitting by walking more. Professor Stamatakis said that using **wearable** devices to track our steps is a good way to understand and improve our health. Tracking steps is a simple way to measure how active we are, and it can help us make healthier choices in our **sedentary** lives.