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Life Kit

What happens when you move your body throughout the day

Life Kit

NPR

Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Last fall, NPR's Body Electric challenged listeners to take part in a study with Columbia University. Over 20,000 people signed up to incorporate movement breaks into their day. So ... did it work?

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Hey everybody, it's Mariel. One of my ongoing intentions is to move more and

0:28.0

that doesn't necessarily mean doing these intense strict workouts though those can be fun sometimes.

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It's really about smaller, purposeful movements, you know, dancing in my living room or walking

0:40.8

instead of taking the train, getting up from my desk every so often to stretch.

0:45.7

You could call these movement breaks.

0:48.3

Our friends at Body Electric wanted to know, how effective are those movement breaks?

0:53.6

So with Columbia University researcher Keith Diaz,

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they ask 20,000 listeners to do these every hour or so,

1:00.3

and their preliminary results are surprising.

1:03.0

Ted Radio Hour and Body Electric host,

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Manouge Samurodi, is going to get into some of those findings with us right now.

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And she and Keith are going to make the case for why movement breaks

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could be exactly what you need.

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