Show 1264: How to Make Exercise More Enjoyable

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In your great-grandparents’ day, hardly anybody exercised. There were sports enthusiasts who raced or danced or rode horses, played ball or rowed for fun. But then, as throughout evolution, very few people went to the gym. Still, they stayed physically active, either because their work required it or because they had found something, such as […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.
0:12.4	com.
0:14.0	Exercise is big business.
0:17.0	Americans spend tens of billions on fitness centers, gym memberships and health clubs.
0:22.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe
0:25.8	Grayton. Our guest today is an expert in human evolutionary biology.
0:38.0	Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman says we never evolved to exercise, but physical activity reduces our
0:46.0	risk of the chronic diseases that make us sick or shorten our lives.
0:50.6	How can you make an exercise more enjoyable? Are you tired of all the
0:54.4	shaming and blaming? Our ancestors move because they had to, or because it was part of
1:00.1	the social fabric of their life. Coming up on the people's
1:03.0	people's pharmacy debunking myths and sharing insights about physical
1:07.5	activity and exercise.
1:12.0	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, COVID cases started falling steadily in the
1:19.7	U.S. in mid-January. They plateaued in March and April and then dropped again until about a week or two ago.
1:27.0	Now COVID cases are going up again. The weekly average on June 23rd was 11,280 cases.
1:35.0	By Tuesday of this week, the 7-day average had doubled to more than 23,000 cases.
1:42.0	Over the last week, both new daily reported deaths and COVID-related
1:46.6	hospitalizations were up 17%. That's after months of declines.
1:53.0	Public health authorities are blaming the surge on the Delta variant.
1:57.0	Many people threw away their masks and decided the pandemic was over.
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