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Can you limit your sitting and sleeping to just 23 and 1/2 hours a day – finding just 30 minutes in your daily routine to spend on exercise?

Dr. Mike Evans puts forward that provocative question in a popular YouTube “visual lecture” explaining the single best thing we can do for our health: regular exercise in modest amounts.

Dr. Evans, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, sought to find what single “treatment” has the biggest return on investment in terms of overall health. In his compelling video he gathers overwhelming evidence showing that light exercise (such as walking) for about 30 minutes per day can make huge improvements in the average person’s health and quality of life. He says that while he doesn’t recommend for people to minimize their efforts in any area of healthy living, the truth is that exercise matters the most.

“We see big differences when somebody goes from not doing anything to doing something,” Dr. Evans notes. “You can break it down so it’s just 10 minutes, 10 minutes and 10 minutes, if you want to do 30 minutes of exercise if you want it broken into three [daily segments].”

This message corresponds with the principle behind the Quick Fit exercise program from L&T Health and Fitness. Read more about how 15-minute workouts with Quick Fit will improve health dramatically.