I want to start a new fitness trend.

Welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since

2013 averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes. One of the advantages of walking early in the day.

And as I am walking right now, just after the sun has risen, in fact, I'm facing dearest,

do-ist.

I'm facing due east.

I'm facing due east, and I can see the sun just above the tree line straight ahead.

The advantage, in addition to the beauty of the sunrise, it's much cooler right now than we have been experiencing in the afternoons here. In fact, if I had checked the

temperature before I walked out, I might even have grabbed a light hoodie. It's a little crisp,

but it feels good and the afternoon

temperatures here combined with the humidity have been pretty intense even for someone who

loves summer as much as I do. All right, so I guess this was maybe month, month and a half ago

was scrolling through some news on my iPad, and a headline caught my attention. And it was a bit

of a curiosity, but I was not curious enough to actually tap the headline and read the article.

But I remembered it.

Fast forward a couple of weeks after that, while I was out walking, I saw someone running,

and I instantly thought of the headline that I had seen a couple

of weeks earlier. Fast forward again, last night, I thought, huh, let me do some research and found

a whole bunch of articles about this particular headline,

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