Now from Times Square, here's what you need to know.

Let's talk about a good news that we can.

We're talking about this headline right here about how physical activity can help prevent chronic back pain.

Yeah, well, 8.2% of Americans deal with back pain.

A very common presentation and complaint

in the emergency room, almost 30 million people.

So this new study shows what we can do,

a simple effort, a method, to decrease our risk of that back pain

worsening. They looked at this study it was hundreds of people and they found that

over six months and these those were likely these patients or participants were

more likely to be overweight and obese and suffer from back pain as well.

And they found that in six months half of those who had at least 20 minutes of physical activity

were able to stop the progression of their back pain from getting worse.

And those who had more sedentary lifestyles, sleeping, lying down,

had unfortunate progression of their back pain.

It shows that simple moving.

Exactly.

Simple methods like moving during the day. They call them exercise

snacks for example. Just getting up for 10 minutes at a time, moving around. I try to

think about this like we're animals. If you saw an animal sitting for eight hours

doing nothing,

you'd probably ask what's wrong with that animal.

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