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Physical activity doesn’t mean you have to endure a 45-minutes spinning class, or a personal trainer putting you through the paces of hell, or a daily 5:30 a.m. jog. It doesn’t mean you have to invest in a bicycle or a home gym, or put a heated lap pool your yard. But it does mean you have to MOVE…to get up and join the rest of the living world.
Have you noticed? Everyone and everything is always in motion—people running, walking or jogging, the kids on skateboards, the guy on the bike weaving through traffic, the young mother chasing after her fast-moving toddler, the old man slowly making his way across the street with his walker, the birds flying, the dogs playing, the leaves in the trees, each swaying to that magical rhythm that resides inside each and every one of us—no matter what condition we’re in.
You might have spent the majority of your life watching TV and eating Cheetos. Or trying to find the closest possible space to the mall. Or having a Milky Way bar every time the kids got you aggravated. Or snarking down a Big Mac and fries for lunch every day for the last six months. Or moving no further than is absolutely necessary to perform the functions of life.
No matter where you are on the spectrum, physical activity of any kind will make you look and feel better. It’ll make you leaner and stronger. It’ll make your cardiovascular system happy. It will put you in a better frame of mind. It will even make you more intelligent.
I’m not just making up these claims to induce you into a grueling exercise regimen. I’m only repeating what the science says. These are the proven outcomes of hundreds if not thousands of studies on physical activity and its effects on people. If you’ve been looking for the magic bullet, you can stop searching right now. You’ve found it. Now it’s just a matter of changing a few old routines. It’s hard to do that alone, so we’ll do it together. Let’s start.
He is at the forefront of innovations in clinical care, scholarship, mentorship, and education in surgical/medical nutrition and obesity research and author of Break Through Your Set Point in addition to more than 400 publications on obesity/nutrition research.
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