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Minoru Saba

"Walking 8,000 steps per day is effective in lowering neutral fat as well as reducing small dense LDL-cholesterol and the risk of arteriosclerosis, which can cause stroke and heart disease, Saitama Medical University has found"
mainichi.jp/english/articles/2
"average woman’s [man's] stride length is 0.413 [0.415] times [their] height"
🔸8000 steps is about 5.6km for people 170cm tall
calculat.io/en/length/steps-to

The MainichiJapan study on town residents finds walking 8,000 steps a day good for health - The MainichiMOROYAMA, Saitama -- Walking 8,000 steps per day is effective in lowering neutral fat as well as reducing small dense LDL-cholesterol and the risk of

@minorusaba too bad people back in the day of Hokusai didn’t carry pedometers 👟

@RoboticistDuck
According to MLIT's Yokohama National Highway Office (国土交通省関東地方整備局 横浜国土事務所) the distance from Nihonbashi to the Hodogaya-juku, the first post station on the Tōkaidō route to Kyoto, was about 33km and people walked around 40km/day in the Edo period. Pedometers would have recorded 57,000 to 60,000 steps if they had them then😬
ktr.mlit.go.jp/yokohama/tokaid

www.ktr.mlit.go.jp江戸時代の旅人は1日で何キロくらい歩いたの?