How many steps per day are needed for longevity? Fewer than 10 000, says large study

Title:

How many steps per day are needed fro longevity? Fewer than 10 000, says large study

Author:

Zakiyah Ebrahim

Published:

health 24, 9 March 2022

https://www.news24.com/health24/lifestyle/healthy-you/how-many-steps-per-day-are-needed-for-longevity-fewer-than-10-000-says-large-study-20220309-2

From the article:

* Achieving 10 000 steps a day has long been seen as a benchmark for fitness and health.  

 

* However, more and more evidence is showing that one can aim for fewer steps and still achieve longevity. 

 

* A meta-analysis suggests that especially older adults can make do with fewer than 10 000 steps per day.  

New research to explore experiences of walking and creativity during COVID-19 [University of Liverpool, 22 April 2021]

Title:

New research to explore experiences of walking and creativity during COVID-19

 

Published:

University of Liverpool, 22 April 2021

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2021/04/22/new-research-to-explore-experiences-of-walking-and-creativity-during-covid-19/

 

From the article:

The University of Liverpool is part of a new collaborative research project exploring people´s experience of walking during the Covid-19 pandemic.  

 

The Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing and community during COVID-19 project will also look at the role of creativity – or creative walking – in those experiences.

Toyohashi University of Technology & The University of Tokyo (Japan) - Researchers' VR walking simulator feels surprisingly close to the real thing

Title:

Researchers' VR walking simulator feels surprisingly close to the real thing

 

By:

Frontiers

 

Published:

Tech Xplore, 21 April 2021

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-vr-simulator-surprisingly-real.html

 

From the article:

 Despite virtual reality (VR) technology being more affordable than ever, developers have yet to achieve a sense of full immersion in a digital world. Among the greatest challenges is making the user feel as if they are walking.

 

Now, researchers from the Toyohashi University of Technology and The University of Tokyo in Japan have published a paper to the journal Frontiers in Virtual Reality describing a custom-built platform that aims to replicate the sensation of walking in VR, all while sitting motionlessly in a chair.