So there are some very interesting studies being done out there about what exercise can do for us. Let’s explore this a bit: there is a study that has found that inactivity is as harmful as smoking and can lead to things like breast and colon cancer, heart disease and type two Diabetes.
While there are several differing opinions on how -much- exercise is needed (anywhere from 15 minutes five times a week to 19 hours of exercise a week) there is something that we can agree on: most people in developed countries aren’t getting even 15 minutes of exercise (the kind that raises your heart rate and helps the blood move around your body) on most days of the week. We sit. A lot. And there is a lot of screen time involved (*Doctor Corinne looks sheepish as obviously both she and the reader have at some point been looking at screens*). (more…)