If you exercise, you call into action nearly every body system including your heart and lungs, and molecules and hormones dash madly around the body.

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We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

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There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key.

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There's been a hysteria in place over the last many years.

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We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, ... We focus on obesity and not on other health habits and other risk factors.

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This is something everybody can do. And you don't even have to do the 30 minutes all at one time. If you fit in three 10-minute walks, get another 2,000 or 3,000 steps, that's great. You are beginning to get close to a healthful dose of physical activity.

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