No… Really… Let”s Move! It”s a bit frustrating to me (and to Dr. David Katz as well as you will see below), that we have not taken heed to the research stating movement is beneficial for LIFE. There is conclusive evidence now that a person can be more healthy and live longer if they did at least 30 minutes of exercise daily. Remind me again, why we are not using the time we have kid”s undivided attention in schools to help them understand this?! Have I mentioned how much a love Dr. Katz?! Well, here is what he has to say on the subject: “We already knew that sitting too much shortens our lives; and that sitting a bit less each day can extend them. And still our prevailing cultural inclination is to send our naturally rambunctious kids to school and bolt them to chairs all day, until they grow up to become adults we can’t get off couches with crowbars. And if, along the way, that rambunctiousness mobile casino ever rebels against the incarceration- well, we’ve got medication for that. We already knew that sedentariness now counts as a leading cause of premature death globally. We already knew that lack of physical activity was established among the top three causes of premature death in the United States, and that going from sedentary to routinely active could reduce the lifetime risk of all major chronic disease by 50%. We already knew that routine physical activity also turns up on the very short list of factors that exert so profound an influence on medical destiny that they actually alter the behavior and expression of our genes, nurturing our nature at the level of DNA. We already know that 20 minutes of physical activity 5 times a week could defend a high percentage of at-risk kids from developing type 2 diabetes.” Let”s Move! 😉 http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130524194014-23027997-let-s-move-more-than-our-lips