This Easy Alternative to Exercise Boosts Health and Extends Lives
New research extols the virtues of light physical activity. It’s not exercise—it may even be better. And it can be really fun.
For three decades now, public health guidelines have advised Americans to get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity, a threshold of exercise found to provide significant health and longevity benefits. During those three decades, the rate of obesity among American teens and adults has doubled, raising the risk of heart attacks, diabetes, osteoarthritis and cancer, according to a new study published in the journal Lancet.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
Among the obvious explanations, along with increasingly poor diets, is the fact that a majority of people don’t meet that minimum recommended exercise threshold. There’s gotta be an easier way. And there is. Easier and perhaps even better.
I want to introduce you to a healthy yet lesser known concept that has nothing to do with exercise.
It’s called light physical activity.
Several groundbreaking new studies add to a growing body of work suggesting that any kind of normal, daily movement — perhaps while shopping…
