Climbing 50 steps every day reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke by up to 32 percent. Researchers at Peking University in China evaluated data from 458,860 adults from Great Britain.
To prevent the dangers of sitting for long periods of time, the World Health Organization recommends 21 minutes of exercise daily. The risk of so-called atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD) was reduced by a full 20 percent in those study participants who climbed more than five flights of stairs every day.