Re:Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
by nibbleshifter on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:24AM
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Similarly, 10,000 being a round number is how it was chosen arbitrarily by the Japanese for the 10,000 steps thing that has since caught on globally.
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Re:Ten Percent of the Brain Myth
by mistersquid on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:32AM
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> 10,000 being a round number is how it was chosen arbitrarily by the Japanese
According to a 2019 article from Harvard Health, “10,000 steps” was a marketing term for hardware made by a Japanese company. (Not sure if the original root goes back to Japanese folklore, but the article implies it doesn’t.)
> Dr. Lee discovered that the origins of the number go back to 1965, when a Japanese company made a device named Manpo-kei, which translates to "10,000 steps meter." “The name was a marketing tool,” she says. [0]
[0] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/10000-steps-a-day-or-few...