Is Eight Hours of Sleep Actually the Right Goal for Everyone?
Eight hours of sleep has become one of those health rules that can feel less like guidance and more like a nightly grade. You got seven hours and 12 minutes? Not ideal. Six and a half? Brace yourself. Nine? Are you somehow sleeping too much? I wondered when, exactly,...
Do You Really Need 10,000 Steps?
Somewhere along the way, 10,000 steps became a health rule. Walk less than that and it can feel like you didn’t quite do enough. Hit 10,000 and you’ve had a “good” day. But there’s a problem with that number: 10,000 steps was never established as the magic threshold...