Why 10,000 steps? The goal of 10,000 steps is the recommended daily step target for healthy adults to achieve health benefits. With continual advances in technology and workplaces becoming more sedentary it now takes a concerted effort to make active choices.

Level of activity

• Sedentary is less than 5,000 steps per day
• Low active is 5,000 to 7,499 steps per day
• Somewhat active is 7,500 to 9,999 steps per day
• Active is more than 10,000 steps per day
• Highly active is more than 12,500

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It may seem like a contradiction, but more adults in the U.S. say they are exercising at the same time more of them are becoming obese.

About 24 percent of adults last year said they exercise enough each week to meet government recommendations for both muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise, according to a large annual health survey. That was up from 21 percent in 2015. Also in this survey 31 percent of adults indicated they were obese last year, up slightly.

So if more Americans are exercising, how can more also be getting fatter?

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