My post on LinkedIn today, “What If the CDC Normalized Activity Instead of Inactivity?,” begins
What If the CDC Normalized Activity Instead of Inactivity?
This post is about my great passion, leadership—in particular, how beliefs, mental models, and words motivate and influence. I also care a lot about: fitness.
America’s normalization of sedentary lifestyles
Inactivity and diseases of excess are so prevalent in the U.S. that even the Centers for Disease Control’s Benefits of Physical Activity page treats inactivity as normal and activity as something to go out of your way for.
I find that perspective discouraging so I edited the text to normalize activity instead. Click the CDC page for the original.
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