You don’t need more exercise, you just need to move

Your New Year's Resolution to live healthier may be more achievable than you think. Enter the “movement movement,” a way of framing fitness not by how much we exercise, but instead by how little we move.

Over the course of human history, we’ve never been as sedentary as we are right now. And scientists say it could be killing us. Sitting more than eight hours a day without any added physical activity puts your risk of death at levels similar to obesity and smoking.

Quartz News traveled to upstate Washington to meet Katy Bowman, who argues that everything from the way you put away your dishes to how you choose to sit can help you stack more movement into your life.

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