Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the new study revealing the number of daily steps needed to avoid depression

A new study has revealed the amount of steps you take per day could lead to a reduction in depression symptoms.

Spanish researchers have debunked the earlier finding that 10,000 steps a day is the optimal amount - and revealed that 7,000 will translate to better mental health outcomes.

UK correspondent Enda Brady unpacks the results of the study - and reveals the role step trackers can play in generating positive results.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the brady Are UK correspondence with us Live from
the UK in the good evening to you, thank you
for being with me again. We spoke yesterday about you know,
Fergie had Well, we're actually at this point we didn't
know Fergi was involved, but we knew that Prince Andrew
was going to skip Christmas with the Royal family because

(00:20):
of his links to a Chinese spy whose identity we
had just found out. Now we've got an update on
who kind of pushed him into that corner.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sarah Ferguson, his ex wife, so she seems to be
the only friend he has left. They lived together still remarkably,
even though they divorced in what nineteen eighty wandered the
same roof in Royal Lodge. Now a lot of people
wonder what sort of a domestic arrangement is this? Why
is she still in the fringes of the royal family?

(00:51):
And now the front pages today A source a royal source.
Let's have been known that the King has expressed his
gratitude to Sarah Ferguson for making Andrew sea sense and
stay away from Sandringham this Christmas. So earlier in the
week it came out that he had been banished, and
then there was a quote saying that he needed to

(01:12):
stay out of sight. And apparently it is Sarah Ferguson
who has made Andrews see since because I think he
will have wanted to have gone to Sandringham anyway, and
the King didn't want him there because his presence would
of course bring more Cameron lenses for all the wrong
reasons and reporters. So it is Sarah Ferguson who is
doing the peace deal and the Olive branching behind the

(01:34):
scenes this Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, I suppose everybody's happy, then, aren't they. Let's go
to the Google street View story. This is incredible. It
might have helped solve a murder case.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, can you imagine I'm about to use the phrase
bad look for a murderer. But the Google street View
car had not driven down this village in northern Spain
in fifteen years, and it just happened to do so
on the day at the very moment that a guy
is seen bundling a big package into the boot of

(02:08):
a car, and the car is very visible, so too
is the guy. It's a tiny village with thirty two inhabitants.
It will not have taken long for the Spanish police
to make arrests, and indeed they have now arrested a
man and a woman on suspicion of the murder of
a local man called Jose Luis Rodriguez. His dismembered remains
have apparently been found in the local cemetery. And key

(02:32):
to unsolving everything and unpicking this story is the fact
that the Google street Maps car went down the street
at that precise moment. So when detectives were investigating the
disappearance of this man, the first port of call a
young detective did was go online. This village is tiny
in the province of Soria in northern Spain, and a

(02:54):
young cop has gone on Google street Maps just to
see what the place looks like. And he could not
believe his look. Finding a suspicious package being bundled into
the boot of a car at the precise moment that
the disappearance had been registered, you could not make it up.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
That's pretty crazy, isn't it. Let's go stay in Spain actually,
because they've apparently figured out the perfect number of daily
steps that you need to avoid depression.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
So scientists in Spain have done this. It's making the
headlines here because we have nine million people in the
UK on anti pals. Nine million people. Can you imagine
that the money that is in that for the pharma industry,
they will not like what is in the papers today.
Seven thousand steps is what we need to be walking

(03:41):
to avoid depression. Previously, there have been studies from Japan
saying that you needed to be hitting ten thousand steps
a day to be healthy, and the Spanish have taken
all the numbers, crunch the data, everything from our smart watches,
and they reckon seven thousand steps a day is the
optimal number to avoid pression. So maybe at some point,

(04:02):
doctor is Ryan, I think make the leap and start
prescribing adrenaline an exercise instead of just the easy, lazy
option of tablets. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Good point. The seventh that the thing is, I've done
that whole challenge where you do ten thousand steps a
day and some days you you know, you feel like
doing it. Some days it's easy, but some days you
almost get more depressed thinking about having to do it.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, look, I suppose that's that's a challenge in itself.
But you know what I since I've had one of
these smart watchers, I find myself later in the day
thinking right, I need to go and get a couple
of pints of milk from the shop now because I'm
fifteen hundred short.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
So they do work in the Thank you so much
to that in the Brady UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
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Speaker 1 (04:49):
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