Medpundit weighs in on the IOM report - An Hour a Day?!!!!. She finds the second day 'spin' debriefing from the Philadelphia paper. The spin:

Walk and take stairs whenever possible, advises Penny Kris-Etherton, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the committee that drafted the guide.

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"It seems like a lot of time for very busy people, but remember, you have 16 hours every day to work with," said Kris-Etherton, who gets in her hour by walking for 15 minutes on a treadmill in the morning and again in the evening, and by walking and taking stairs during the day.

"We're not calling for an hour of formal exercise in the gym," she emphasized. "We're trying to encourage people to incorporate more physical activity in their daily lives so an hour doesn't seem so daunting."

I was taught early in life to say what I mean. Common parlance suggests that when recommends exercise, one means exercise above and beyond that achieved in daily activities. I believe that the report meant to sensationalize. However, if your recommendations seem unreasonable to even health conscious physicians, then you have missed your target. 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.' I do not know if that fits here, but I did think it. The should more precisely say what they mean, and not sensationalize their reommendations.

I agree with more daily walking. I climb stairs all day and walk from place to place. This makes sense for me, but will it work for those who have less freedom in their work place. What rankles me is that the most people will only remember the headline and shrug off the report as unrealistic! They missed an opportunity. As Abba Eban once said about the Palestinians - 'they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity'. This frustrates me.