Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and staying abreast of news, but also for monitoring daily activity levels. Among the most common, and arguably the ...

You know that moving more is great for your health. Breaking up sedentary time reduces risk for cardiovascular disease, helps you manage your weight, boosts your memory and even supports better blood ...

While Apple's built-in Activity app tracks your daily steps, it doesn't offer a way to display this information as a step count directly on your Apple Watch face. Fortunately, there's a simple ...

Whether you easily hit 10,000 steps a day, or manage the more modest yet evidence-backed 7,000, hitting 17,000 may seem a bit of a reach. That's the number of steps hunter gathers used to hit a day, ...

In good news for office workers, a new study from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre (Australia) has found increasing your step count may counteract the health consequences of too much ...

Recently, I’ve been compulsively returning to the little red heart on my phone’s home screen. It’s not the gateway to some intriguing new dating app or an embarrassingly addictive mobile game – the ...