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How Many Steps Do You Really Need in a Day?
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For decades, 10,000 steps was touted as the magic number for good health.
几十年来，1万步被吹捧为良好健康的神奇数字。But the recommendation is more myth than science, and researchers have debunked it in recent years.
但这个建议更多地是未经证实的说法而非科学，而且研究者们在最近几年已经对此辟谣。“We don’t have any evidence for 10,000 steps,” said Melody Ding, an epidemiologist at the University of Sydney School of Public Health and the lead author of the new study. “It’s just a really big random number that people throw out there.”
“我们没有关于必须走1万步的任何证据”，悉尼大学公共健康学院的流行病学家Melody Ding表示，她也是这项新研究的牵头作者，“这只是人们随口抛出的一个很大的数字”The analysis found that there was no significant difference in the risk of falls, cancer, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular mortality between people who walked 7,000 versus 10,000 steps per day.
研究表明每天走7000步的人与走1万步的人在跌倒、癌症、2型糖尿病以及心血管死亡率方面没有明显差异 。The health benefits of walking are like juicing an orange: The first few squeezes give the most juice, but after a while, things start to dry up.
走路的健康益处就像榨一颗橙子：最初几下能挤出最多的果汁，但过一会儿就榨干了。 The new data only shows a correlation and cannot prove that walking caused these health benefits. 这些最新数据只能表明一种关联性，并不能证明是走路造成了这些健康益处。After all, people who walk more tend to be less frail and eat better, potentially muddying the results, said Dr. Seth Martin, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
毕竟，走路多的人倾向于更少的身体虚弱以及吃得更好，可能混淆这些研究结果，约翰斯霍普金斯大学医学院心脏病专家Seth Martin说。Experts also say that intensity still matters. 专家还表示强度也很重要。
So, on your daily walk, consider adding lunges, picking up the pace or choosing a route with hills or stairs. 所以，在你日常走路中，考虑加入弓步走、加快步伐，或者选择一条有坡道或阶梯的路线。
Regardless, the evidence is overwhelming that “any steps are good steps”, Dr. Martin said. 不管怎样，证据充分表“迈出的任何一步都是有益于健康的”。
And while not everyone can remember how many minutes they’ve exercised, almost everyone can track their steps over time with their smartphone.
虽然不是所有人都能记录他们锻炼了多少分钟，但几乎所有人都能通过智能手机长期追踪他们的步数。“If you improve your step count, you are impacting your health across the board”, he said.
如果你提升你的步数，你就在全面改善你的健康状况。
| 单词 | 释义 | 例句 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tout | to advertise, talk about, or praise something or someone repeatedly, especially as a way of encouraging people to like, accept, or buy something | He is being widely touted as the next leader of the party. |
| 2 | myth | an ancient story or set of stories, especially explaining the early history of a group of people or about natural events and facts | The children enjoyed the stories about the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman myth. |
| 3 | debunk | to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear | The writer’s aim was to debunk the myth that had grown up around the actress. |
| 4 | epidemiology | the scientific study of diseases and how they are found, spread, and controlled in groups of people | |
| 5 | epidemiologist | someone who studies diseases and how they are found, spread, and controlled in groups of people | Snowdon is an epidemiologist studying the causes of Alzheimer’s disease. |
| 6 | mortality | - the way that people do not live for ever - the number of deaths within a particular society and within a particular period of time | - Her death made him more aware of his own mortality. - Infant mortality is much higher in the poorest areas of the city. |
| 7 | frail | - not very strong or healthy - easily broken or damaged | His frail hands could hardly hold a cup. |
| 8 | muddy | to put mud (= wet, sticky earth) into something or cover something with mud | Industrial activity has muddied the river. |
| 9 | lunge | - an exercise in which you step forward with one leg and bend your knees - to move forward suddenly and with force, especially in order to attack someone | - Do 10 lunges on each leg. - He suddenly lunged at her with a broken bottle. |
| 10 | pick up the pace | begin moving or doing something faster | |
| 11 | across the board | affecting everyone or everything within an organization, system, or society | The proposed across-the-board cuts for all state agencies will total $84 million. （total在这里是动词“总计”，等于"add up to"/“amount to”/“reach”） |
over time: 随着时间推移，可以翻译为长期下来
lunge: 突然前冲，本文指指运动健身词汇“弓步蹲”