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If you’ve found yourself a slave to your step count, this news is for you. An expansive study of daily step counts and their effect on overall health and risk of serious illness has found the threshold we could be aiming for is far below the popular 10,000 mark. The researchers also found that, past a certain point, doing more steps doesn’t seem to have a particularly positive effect on our risk of mortality or cardiovascular disease (CVD). Whether or not you can get your daily steps in within 11 minutes, and even if your dental situation puts you at greater risk of CVD, it pays to know what s…