We know that eating right is important, but what about exercise? Should that be on our radar? Do we need exercise to be healthy? Today on the Eat to Live podcast, you'll join me and my dad, Dr. Furman, as we discuss how to get moving and why exercise and physical activity will help you eat to live.

We are recording.

Hey, Dad.

Hi, Jen.

What's up? What's up is I'm having, loving this winter skiing and it really motivates me to stay

in great shape because I love to ski and go over jumps and fly through the air on the slopes.

Well, isn't that very fitting for our conversation today? Right. I'm looking forward to talking about exercise today with you.

Yes. Today we are going to talk about exercise. And what did you say the other day?

Exercise excellence?

Yes. We're always talking about nutritional excellence, but now we've got to talk about combining

nutritional excellence with physical or exercise excellence too to maximize human lifespan and

also how physically and mentally healthy you're going to be in your later years, because

we're trying to have people live

to 100 years old we want them to be physically healthy between 85 and 100 the last 15 years of their

life if you don't exercise and keep your body in good shape you're not going to be have a great

life in those later years absolutely i'm happy to report i think the listeners got the message on

the eating right thing it's very important to eat right. And now we get to dive into how important it is to get moving and exercise right.

Exactly.

So I actually think you're a very interesting person to talk to about this topic because, I mean, you were a professional ice skater. So what was life like

as a professional athlete? Well, as a professional athlete, you're a fanatical exerciser. You're

trying to be, you know, push the envelope of physical capacity and you're often exercising to the

point of being unhealthy. So we're doing so much exercise that actually could be bad for your heart,

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