Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself and

we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

One of the things that I talk about, it's an ongoing theme for the podcast, and that is the benefits

that we get from walking, and there are so many, but the benefits that tend to be

focused on quite frequently are the health benefits, that when you make a commitment to walk

consistently, maybe even every day, and you're going at a moderate speed, about three miles an hour. Even a slower speed

still has benefits, but a lot of the health benefits tend to be tied to walking at a moderate pace,

again, three miles an hour. We are reducing the risk of all kinds of possible future bad health outcomes.

Heart disease, certain types of cancer, dementia.

All of these, the risk of these diseases goes down

when we are pursuing fitness.

When we're making healthy choices,

when we make a fitness promise to walk

every day and we keep that promise, you're investing in your future self. Now, of course, there are no

guarantees. There are no guarantees that what you and I are doing today is going to pay off in the way

that we would like it to 20 years from now.

But there is a guarantee that you can't change, and that is where you are today in your health and wellness is in some measure, not full measure, is in some measure tied to those choices

that you and I made 20 years ago. Now, there are things that are out of our control, genetics.

I had no control over the family that I was born into and the genetics that come with that.

But I think sometimes, sometimes we actually give more

weight to that component of our health and wellness than we really should, to the point that, well,

these are my genes, I can't change them, so I'm not going to do anything about it. When the

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