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| | Physical, psychological benefits of walking more each day |
 | | At the end of each day, participants completed several rating scales based on their judgments of the entire day, including self-ratings of self-esteem, happiness, overall mood and depression as well as energy and tension. |
 | | The psychology professor pointed out that walking more is increasingly advocated by public health authorities as an excellent form of essential exercise, and recently in the popular media there is the widely advocated suggestion that people should walk 10,000 steps a day for optimal health. |
 | | Over the 20-day period of the study, the mean number of steps per day of the 37 participants was 9,217, with the males averaging 9,829 steps per day and the females averaging 8,923. |
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