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From KQED.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today for Mina Kim.

We all spend most of our lives sitting at desks and cars on couches, staring at screens.

New research shows that all that sedentary time

is really hard on our bodies, on our minds. In her new book, Body Electric, journalist Mnuchez

Azameroidi argues that the problem isn't just how much we sit. It's that we've built a world

that makes movement optional. So what would it

actually take to build movement back into our lives? And can it counteract all those hours we

spend hunched over our phones, over our laptops? Let's talk about it. Welcome, Manushe.

Thanks so much for having me, Leslie. Great to be here. I imagine you wrote this book because you were feeling all the aches and pains of sitting too much.

What was going on in your own life?

Well, you know, I think we've been doing this for a while now, right?

But things truly did peak during the pandemic when not only were we all working remote,

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