I fully agree with one of Cloud’s last points: that our culture has taught us to “exercise” outside of our life contexts for 30+ minutes a day, something I consider to be a male model of exercise based on the medical model of “doses” and medicine. In contrast, our culture has underemphasized the benefits of “daily lifestyle physical movement” that we have evolved to do since the beginning of humankind. As other researchers quoted in the article stated, we would probably move more and expend more energy overall if instead of “exercising as per American marketing” we looked for and created opportunities to move throughout our days. By doing this, we could maintain our weight and our health AND we’d feel a heck of a lot better on a daily basis. (I consider this type of physical activity as “fitting into” and more supportive of the juggling we women do to fulfill our multiple roles and responsibilities.)
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