Why you need to get up and move—right now! (w/ Manoush Zomorodi)
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This is How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and I'm currently sitting at a desk. Some days I realize that I have spent the entire day sitting at a desk. I've spent hours not moving anything other than my mouth and hands. I have a sense that that's probably not the healthiest. I mean, we've all heard how important it is to exercise and to get in your steps and yada, yada, yada. But what if You don't have a schedule that allows you to go to the gym every day, or you have a job that requires you to sit in a cubicle for hours at a time, or you're just exhausted all the time. How do you actually make those changes then? Well, today's guest, Manoush Zomorodi, Thank you so much for having me.
Manoush is not some scold who is just telling you to get up out of your chair and onto a treadmill. Instead, she's a person with practical, useful, dare I say it, even fun ways to be healthier, feel better and end the day with more energy. So to get us started, here is a clip from Manoush's TED Talk about why we often end up sitting for such a long stretch, even though we know we should be moving more.
Do you ever close your laptop at the end of a long day and feel like you have just enough energy to crawl over to the couch to scroll on your phone or watch a show or maybe both at the same time? Yeah, during the pandemic, that was all I wanted to do, and I couldn't understand why. I was safe, I was healthy. Why didn't I want to close my laptop and go dance around the living room? Where did all my energy go? I'm a journalist. My specialty for the last 10 years has been trying to understand how our tech habits change us as people. And so I decided I was going to find out why sitting in front of a screen makes us feel so exhausted. Because we have all heard about the mental effects, right? But what about our physical health?
Well, as I quickly learned, looking at screens has not only reshaped our days, it is reshaping our bodies. According to researchers at Johns Hopkins, every day, the average 19-year-old moves about as much as the average 60-year-old. Over the last 20 years, rates of type 2 diabetes in young people have doubled. Three in four American adults has a chronic illness. Many of those are preventable, at least one chronic illness. And the WHO says that this is a global problem. They predict that by the end of the decade, which is not that far away, this lifestyle will likely lead to 500 million new cases of preventable conditions like heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, costing governments $27 billion a year.
typing, swiping, scrolling, sitting. This is the rhythm of our modern life. But I don't know about you, I can't throw away my phone, right? Like, I can't go off the grid. So how can we stay connected without slowly destroying our health?
I'll be honest with you. I am not there yet. I still need reminders. I am still sitting right now. But I think, I hope, I suspect that by the end of this episode, I may be in a different spot and you might be too. So don't go anywhere. We will be right back after these quick ads.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:19
2
What are the detrimental effects of sitting all day?
5:19–10:39
3
How can positive interruptions improve our health?
10:39–38:24
4
What is the Body Electric experiment and its findings?
38:24–46:05
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How can we incorporate movement into our daily routines?
46:05–46:08
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