Health risks of inactivity

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Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

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are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity],

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Ten percent in fact, on both of those.

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Six percent for heart disease,

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seven percent for type 2 diabetes,

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which is what my father died of.

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Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

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to get off our duff more,

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but if you're anything like me, it won't.

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What did get me moving was a social interaction.

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Someone invited me to a meeting,

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but couldn't manage to fit me in

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to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said,

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"I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"

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It seemed kind of odd to do,

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and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

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"I have to be the one to ask the next question,"

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because I knew I was going to huff and puff

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during this conversation.

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And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own.

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So instead of going to coffee meetings

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or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

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I ask people to go on a walking meeting,