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Walking is often recommended as an approachable and enjoyable exercise for people looking to lose weight. But if you’re wondering what your daily step count should be to support weight loss , the answer is less straightforward than you might think.

“If you do 10,000 steps a day and change nothing else, you may lose weight,” says Lawrence Cheskin, M.D., F.A.C.P., chair of nutrition and food studies at George Mason University , adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine , and coauthor of Weight Loss for Life: The Proven Plan for Success . “But weight loss is variable and dependent on many other factors such…

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