NPR article, Lady Doctor Finally Tells: Move -It’s All Connected

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This is an issue that I have always had contention with, from the time that I tore my ACL in college and had continuing knee problems up until and through the time that I finally got rid of my car, forcing me to walk far more, and while carrying groceries, often up hills. I found that my knee problems actually resolved themselves as I became accustomed to walking about 5 miles per day, up rather steep hills, as others drove and went to the gym, while complaining of ineffective diet plans. Now, a doctor finally explains that I wasn’t crazy, after all. I no longer walk that much every day, but I still take the bus, walk about 1.5 to 2 kms per day, and still carry groceries and work items every day, keeping my arm muscles in shape with out the need to lift at a gym.

She finds that:

“…moving throughout the day in a low-grade way actually sends a stimulus to our cells to constantly dispose of glucose and use it throughout the day, which can have a profound impact on our metabolic health. So in a sense, our obsession with exercise while still being radically sedentary for most of the day, is not really working for us.”

No kidding. So, it seems that fidgeting, pacing, and walking to the grocery store three or four times per week is actually more useful, as I have always felt, physically, than that advice from the traditional doctor to get those 30-50 minutes per day or week of brisk excercise. I feel it if I stay in and sit to write all day, rather than either standing up and pacing, or standing up to write (even when I have had to stack books on boxes to make that work, or use my drying rack as a very careful laptop stand), during the day. Now, I have further confirmation that my personal feedback is not wrong, not for my own body, and maybe not even for others. Thank you, Doctor.
Salud Para Todos/Health For All
(Thanks and credit for the Salud Para Todos/Health For All movement to Rigoberta Menchu Tum…)
Shira
Ĉi tio estas afero pri kiu mi ĉiam disputis, de la tempo kiam mi ŝiris mian ACL en la universitato kaj havis daŭrajn genuajn problemojn ĝis kaj tra la tempo, kiam mi finfine forigis mian aŭton, devigante min piediri multe pli, kaj portante manĝaĵojn, ofte supren laŭ montetoj. Mi trovis, ke miaj genuaj problemoj efektive solvis sin, kiam mi kutimis marŝi ĉirkaŭ 5 mejlojn tage, supren laŭ krutaj montetoj, dum aliaj veturis kaj iris al la gimnazio, dum mi plendis pri neefikaj dietaj planoj. Nun, kuracisto finfine klarigas, ke mi ja ne estis freneza. Ŝi trovas tion:
“… moviĝi dum la tuta tago en malaltgrada maniero efektive sendas stimulon al niaj ĉeloj por senĉese forigi glukozon kaj uzi ĝin dum la tuta tago, kio povas havi profundan efikon al nia metabola sano. Do iusence, nia obsedo kun ekzerco dum daŭre estante radikale sidema dum la plej granda parto de la tago, ne vere funkcias por ni.”
Do, ŝajnas, ke ŝanceliĝi, paŝadi kaj iri al la nutraĵvendejo tri aŭ kvar fojojn semajne estas efektive pli utila, kiel mi ĉiam sentis, fizike, ol tiu konsilo de la tradicia kuracisto akiri tiujn 30-50 minutojn ĉiutage. aŭ semajno da vigla ekzercado. Mi sentas tion, se mi restos kaj sidas por skribi la tutan tagon, prefere ol aŭ stari kaj paŝadi, aŭ ekstari por skribi (eĉ kiam mi devis stakigi librojn sur skatoloj por ke tio funkciu, aŭ uzi mian sekigon kiel tre zorgema tekkomputilo), dumtage. Nun, mi havas plian konfirmon, ke mia persona sugesto ne estas malĝusta, ne por mia propra korpo, kaj eble eĉ ne por aliaj. Dankon, doktoro.
Salud Por Ĉiuj/Sano Por Ĉiuj
(Dankon kaj meriton por la movado Salud Para Todos/Sano Por Ĉiuj al Rigoberta Menchu ​​Tum…)
Ŝira

(ps: one sentence added after translating -can you find it?)
This article by NPR cites Dr. Casey Means. Project Do Better offers an editable plan for communities to help us all Do Better on community and public health, as part of Phase I of this Abolition Movement related umbrella project.

About ShiraDestProjectDoBetter

Shira Destinie Jones is founder of #ProjectDoBetter, a long term plan proposal for community building, and a published poet, academic author, and advocate for improving our #PublicDomainInfrastructure. Her other book, Stayed on Freedom's Call, on Black-Jewish Cooperation in DC, is freely available via the Internet Archive. She has organized community events such as film discussions, multi-ethnic song events, and cooperative presentations, and is a native of Washington, DC. She promotes peaceful planning, NVC and the Holocene Calendar, and is also a writer. More information at https://shiradest.wordpress.com/

6 thoughts on “NPR article, Lady Doctor Finally Tells: Move -It’s All Connected

  1. That is totally true, Shira! Working out and sitting down the rest of the day, does not help very much with our health or our weight. Moving around most of the hours is the best. And I don’t mean running marathon 😉 , which is not healthy at all.

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    1. Very good points, but arranging that frequent movement is the hard part, quite often. When I worked at MITRE, I had a manager who used a stand-up desk, but that is the only one I have seen in over twenty years (or, actually since the 1990, over thirty ) of working in a variety of types of offices. I really do not understand why companies put up such a set of barriers to letting employees work standing up, as it saves on health care costs over the long and even mid-term.

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      1. We were recommended to use the stairs instead of the lift, and we were lucky that we could choose adjustable desks so that we could stnd up if we wanted to. Also, the printer was at the other end of a long corridor, and at first I was annoyed, but later I appreciated it. 😉 😀

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