How Our Tech Changes Our Bodies
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Manoush Zomorodi, host of NPR's "TED Radio Hour" and a new limited run podcast series "Body Electric" and Keith Diaz , a certified exercise physiologist and the director of the Exercise Testing Laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center, talk about the new podcast that explores the ways our technologies, from the chair to the PC, have changed our bodies and how to participate in a study to determine how much movement is needed to offset the effects of too much sitting.→For more information about Body Electric and how to participate in the experiment, go to npr.org/bodyelectric.
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| 0:00.0 | What are you doing right now? |
| 0:16.8 | Right now. |
| 0:17.8 | Chances are it involves sitting. |
| 0:20.8 | Most jobs these days require long hours of sitting and interacting with machines, right? |
| 0:26.1 | And that's what we do in our leisure time too. |
| 0:29.0 | Which is not so good for our physical as well as emotional health. |
| 0:33.0 | A new six-part podcast, I really say that word a zillion times. |
| 0:38.1 | A new six-part podcast from NPR wants to explore what they're calling the relationship between |
| 0:43.8 | our technology, the chair, and the devices, and our bodies, and how to make that relationship |
| 0:50.4 | healthier. |
| 0:51.4 | It's called Body Electric. |
| 0:52.9 | And it's hosted by the new summer rhodi of NPR's Ted Radio Hour and some of you might |
| 0:57.5 | remember that she was the host of WNYC's Note to Self back in the day. |
| 1:02.5 | Hi, my nurse. |
| 1:03.5 | Hello, Brian. |
| 1:05.3 | So good to be talking to you again. |
| 1:08.1 | And again, and for me too. |
| 1:09.6 | And we're also joined by one of the experts involved in the podcast, who has an assignment |
| 1:14.3 | for you listeners. |
| 1:15.9 | Should you choose to accept it? |
| 1:17.5 | We'll hear more about that as we go. |
| 1:19.9 | Keith Diaz is a certified exercise physiologist who directs the exercise testing laboratory |
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