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Hi, I'm Dave.

Today I want to talk about the five dangers, five dangers of not walking enough.

These are five very real consequences of a sedentary lifestyle.

Danger number one, an increased risk of early death, of heart disease, of type 2 diabetes.

Danger number two, an increased risk of cancer. And even more specifically,

we're going to talk about colon cancer. They've done research. And they have discovered that the

risk of colon cancer increases by 8% for every two hours of consistent sitting. Now, be clear, we're not talking about you go to a

theater, you sit for two hours, watch a movie, when you leave, we're not saying that you

now have an 8% greater chance of getting colon cancer. No. talking about a sedentary lifestyle where you're sitting for long periods of time,

day after day, consistently.

When that happens, for every two hours of this consistent sitting day after day after day,

the risk of colon cancer increases by 8%. Number three,

dementia. You're increasing your risk of dementia with a sedentary lifestyle. Again, research-backed,

12 hours of sitting consistently increases the risk of dementia by up to 50%.

And even without an official diagnosis of dementia, a sedentary lifestyle does impact our brain.

It impacts our cognitive functions in areas like memory.

We're more forgetful when we are sedentary.

Number four, increased anxiety and a greater risk for depression.

And then number five, when you're sitting all the time, when you have a sedentary lifestyle,

it's going to impact your muscles, how strong you are.

And specifically your leg muscles and your gluten muscles,

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