Health professionals have long warned that long periods of sitting can put you at risk for chronic diseases and early death. But how long can you sit without the impacts? A new study shows how much movement and how much sitting you should aim for.
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Health professionals have long warned that long periods of sitting can put you at risk for chronic diseases and early death. But how long can you sit without the impacts? A new study shows how much movement and how much sitting you should aim for.
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Sitting for hours at a desk can play havoc with our metabolic health, contributing over time to high blood sugar and high cholesterol, even in people who otherwise seem mostly healthy. But a practical though small new study shows that standing up and moving every 30 minutes for about three minutes may lessen the health impacts of over-sitting.
The study found that climbing several flights of stairs, bopping through some jumping jacks or squats or even taking as few as 15 steps during these mini-breaks improved aspects of blood sugar control among office workers, without noticeably interrupting their workflow.
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When you're in pain, it may be hard to make yourself get up and move. But consider this: A growing body of evidence suggests that spending too many hours sitting is hazardous to your health. Habitual inactivity raises risks for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, deep-vein thrombosis, and metabolic syndrome.
Researchers aren't sure why prolonged sitting has such harmful health consequences. But one possible explanation is that it relaxes your largest muscles. When muscles relax, they take up very little glucose from the blood, raising your risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Walk more and sit less: even light exercise is linked to a lower risk of death
In the 1950s the London busman’s study found that bus drivers developed a higher rate of coronary heart disease than their bus conductor counterparts.Since then, observational studies have repeatedly suggested that sedentary behaviour is bad and physical activity is good for health and longevity. Guidelines recommend at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity each week.
Guideline evidence is mostly based on self report of the amount, intensity, and frequency of activity. Self report is, however, open to recall and reporting bias, potentially resulting in underestimation of low intensity activity and overestimation of overall activity. Self reports are also imprecise. Exactly how much activity (and at what intensity) is needed to protect health remains unclear. In addition, sedentary behaviour is emerging as a potentially independent risk factor for adverse health outcomes despite inconsistency in ascertainment of sedentary time.
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Australian teenagers sit for more than two-thirds of the day, which may increase their risk of physical and social health problems, according to a first-of-its-kind study from Deakin University’s Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN).
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Are you sitting down? If so, nice knowing you! If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, one study suggests, you’re 40 per cent more likely to die in the next three years than I am. I’m standing. I’ve been standing all day. I’ll be standing all month, in fact, without a break. I expect at the end of the month I’ll be sore but triumphant, glowing with smug enlightenment.
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Maybe those of us who sit for long hours in meetings, on phone calls, and tapping away at keyboards should be getting hazard pay. New research that distills the findings of 47 studies concludes that those of us who sit for long hours raise our average risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, type...
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Is sitting down all day giving you an 'office bod'? It's time to quit the habit.
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Sitting for long periods is not bad for you, say researchers - as long as you stay active the rest of the time. - New Zealand Herald
As mental health therapists we spend most of our time sitting. I know its hard to remember to be active, but we have to push ourselves to exercise....our bodies will thank us for it later!
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New research has revealed that breaking up three hours of sitting with three slow, five-minute walks undoes the damage that sitting causes to the le
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It seems the world is finally coming to terms with the fact that humans evolved to stand, not to sit – well, health researchers, savvy office workers and many commuters, at least. The evidence is mounting…
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Don't take obesity sitting down. Stand up for yourself and make a change.
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Sitting, we are told, is the new smoking (see, for example recent articles in Runner's World, Wired, LA Times.) Apparently, 'Sitting for hours on end, every day, is bad for your health. Sitting at ...
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A couch potato lifestyle is linked to a significantly greater risk of certain cancers as well as heart disease and diabetes, research has shown. - New Zealand Herald
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Researchers have found that stand-up working stations aren't enough to combat 'chair disease'.
“This is important information for organisations keen to improve the health of employees, and indicates that changing sitting habits may not be as simple as providing new desks,” Ms Neuhaus said.
“Sitting habits are ingrained in office routines and we found that workers acting alone may feel awkward when standing during meetings, or at their desk,” Ms Neuhaus said.
“Workplace advocates or champions can be useful to remind others of the importance of regular postural changes and to ensure management and colleagues are supportive of standing and moving around.”
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"Once we talk about this and highlight the potential hazards, many people are quite reflective on, on their own lives. I'm more conscious of prolonged periods of sitting now than I ever was." Assoc Prof David Dunstan
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YOU probably don't realise how much time you spend on your backside.
With sitting considered to be the new smoking, updated data from a long-running Australian study reveals people aren't even aware of the extent of their sedentary behaviour.
According to a 12-year follow-up of 11,000 people involved in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study, the amount of time spent sitting each day averaged 500 minutes when measured by a portable device -- yet the participants themselves thought it was only 200 minutes a day.
"The problem of too much sitting is a relatively new consideration in public health, so it is not surprising that many Australians are not fully aware of just how much time they actually spend sitting," said David Dunstan, the head of physical activity at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
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Don't fall off your perch, but sitting is the new smoking and your chair is out to kill you. No, really.
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A New Zealand health expert says the latest research on the dangers of sitting should be a wake-up call - and simply trading in your ordinary office chair for a more expensive ergonomic
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Sitting for long periods increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease and death, researchers suggest.