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Hey, I'd Walk a Million Miles For One Of Your Smiles
Just joshin' about the million miles, but I take the 10,000 steps seriously. That's the number of steps the American Heart Association recommends for the maintenance of good health. How did they settle on 10,000 steps? They inherited it. Yamasa Tokei, a watchmaker, came up with the slogan in 1965. He made and sold a pedometer called the Manpo-Kei, which means means "10,000 step meter." His slogan for the device was, “Let’s walk 10,000 steps a day!” The slogan caught on with Japanese fitness aficionados, and the walking clubs to which they belonged adopted the idea of 10,000 steps a day. In the 1960's the idea found its way to American fitness magazines, including Walking.
