Today's 10-minute walk is helping you remain fitness consistent.

Got a lot of rain last night, and so there are some puddles on the pavement, on the

surface where I'm walking. It's early pre-sunrise. I've got a flashlight so I can see the puddles

of water before I step in them.

Got an email this week from Susan, who recently just found the podcast.

And I think she said it was her first episode.

And she was a bit frustrated.

And she was writing to let me know about her frustration.

I was mentioning some of the benefits of walking,

some of the long-term health benefits of walking, and one of the things that I have said often is, I'm not a doctor, not a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for education and

entertainment purposes only. That's not what frustrated Susan.

It was that I said that walking can lower the risk of diabetes.

And she said, really what's going on here is it can lower the risk of type 2 diabetes, not type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 can be impacted by more activity, more exercise.

Type 1 diabetes is not impacted by that.

It used to be called juvenile diabetes.

They believe that it actually is caused by an autoimmune disorder. And oftentimes,

the type 1 diabetes is misunderstood, and sometimes there's a delay in getting a diagnosis, which can be

harmful. And she, by the way, has had type 1 diabetes since she was 13, very active. She was very

fit. She was a competitive skater. And she was concerned that by simply saying diabetes, I was

adding to that misinformation. And I responded to Susan personally and thanked her for her email. And so moving

forward, if you hear me mention type 2 diabetes instead of simply diabetes, that'll be because

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