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It’s “sitting disease”.
This video can change your life, maybe even save it. 20-30 minutes of activity a day can have HUGE impact on your health and both quality and length of life. It’s almost miraculous.
“Women who go from zero activity to just one hour a week reduced their heart disease rate by almost half.” Wow. Thanks to genetic analysis by 23andme I know that heart problems will probably, literally, be the death of me. I’m okay with knowing this in advance because it’s information I can use to motivate myself and actually affect my fate.
My personal goal is to drop 20 lbs this year and stay there. Stay active. Take the stairs. Bike. Walk.
Walking is man’s best medicine.
Hippocrates, Greek physician (460 BC – 377 BC)
Can you limit your sitting and sleeping to just 23.5 hours a day? Something to think about.
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