Exercise Belongs with Healthy Eating

When I began researching healthy eating, I discovered it also must include exercise. Now I didn’t want or expect to write about exercise. That was for exercise physiologists or physical therapists or even coaches.

But as I delved more deeply into the subject, I could see that we must move our bodies in order to use all those calories and nutrients, whether they were healthy or not. Otherwise, they go to fat and cause diseases like diabetes, heart problems, cancer, depression, and so much more! 
Now that’s scary.
I wanted to inspire busy people, or those who had many other kinds of compromises, to actually eat in ways that would make them healthier. So, how to include exercise into those tight schedules? It’s actually easy once you think about it.

First, try to get in 20 minutes of exercise, or movement, a day. You ask, where can I find 20 minutes? Well, it’s right there in your everyday life. When you vacuum, when you rake leaves, take out the garbage. When you walk from the far end of the parking lot. When you take stairs instead of the elevator. And you can break up those 20 minutes by doing 10 minutes at a time.
More quickly than you thought would be possible, you’ll increase those minutes of exercise to 30! It’ll be easier than you realized. Try walking around the block, then two. Your stamina will increase as well.
Just by moving you’re improving your overall health. It’s well worth taking a step or two. You can do it!