PodMed – Week of August 1, 2016

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This week’s topics include the cost of physical inactivity, the mortality impact of sedentary behavior, behavioral activation for depression, and skin inspections for skin cancer.

Program notes:

0:32 Mortality and physical inactivity
1:33 If you sit for 8 hours increased mortality by 58%
2:33 Looked at over a million individuals
3:31 You have to do 60-95 minutes
3:44 Global economic burden of inactivity
4:44 Physical activity declining worldwide
5:11 Behavioral activation for depression
6:11 Go out to exercise or go out to dinner
7:11 May have applicability widely
7:25 USPSTF recommendations for skin inspection
8:25 Only about 50% with dermatologists
9:12 Inspect even scalp
10:08 End

Related blog:https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2016/07/29/exercise/