Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

Looks like my forgetfulness may not come back to bite me in the butt before I left the house this morning, checked the weather app on my phone and saw

rain maybe forming soon. It didn't look like it was going to be heavy rain, but still rain.

So I made a mental note, grabbed the umbrella on the way out, just stick it in your back pocket.

I didn't.

So I just checked the weather app again and that possibility of rain no longer seems to be

part of the forecast.

So all is well.

Have you heard the experts say that sitting is the new smoking?

Essentially that sitting can be very dangerous for your health, sitting for long periods of time,

not obviously the occasional sitting down, but a lifestyle of sitting where you sit

sit long and you're not getting up and moving much and so experts have been

doing research on this question of how bad is sitting for our health and there

has been some research that indicates that sitting is as

dangerous as smoking in terms of long-term health implications, which is why you get this headline,

sitting is the new smoking. There's a growing body of evidence that if we sit too long, if you sit too long,

it really can be harmful long-term to your health.

It puts you at greater risk for obesity,

puts you at greater risk for diabetes,

for cardiovascular disease.

Those are long term, short term, sitting too long can also increase pain.

Hours of sitting, whether you're reading a book, doing work on a computer,

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