Forget 10,000 steps: This daily walking goal can help lower your heart disease risk

Walking your way to better health may not require quite as many steps as you think. While 10,000 steps per day has become an oft-cited goal, two recent research studies found that far fewer steps are associated with a variety of health benefits—so long as you pick up the pace or increase your daily step count. Even walking less than 5,000 steps per day, but at a faster pace, lowers the risk of death, according to the authors of a study published earlier this month by the British Jour...