Tracking your steps each day can be a useful barometer of physical activity , but health recommendations based solely on step counts might miss some important nuance. A new study of more than 33,000 adults in the UK Biobank suggests that how you space out your daily steps may affect your future health outcomes. In the analysis, people who took most of their daily steps during longer strolls had a lower risk of dying from any cause than those who took most of their steps in shorter strolls.