Human beings evolved to move.
Our bodies, including our brains, were fine-tuned for endurance activities over millennia of stalking and chasing down prey.
"We've engineered that out of our lives now," says Charles Hillman, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who has spent decades studying the link between exercise and cognition. The toll our relatively new sedentary lifestyle takes on our bodies is clear: For the first time in U.S. history, younger generations are expected to live shorter, unhealthier lives than their parents.
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