Just a little light physical activity during work can improve health. Here’s how to incorporate “exercise snacks” and improve your health, even if you’re desk-bound.
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Just a little light physical activity during work can improve health. Here’s how to incorporate “exercise snacks” and improve your health, even if you’re desk-bound.
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The results underscore just how pervasive the consequences of sitting can be, and suggest that exercise by itself may not protect us.
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Sitting too much can boost stroke risk. But adding more movement—even low-effort activity such as doing household chores—may help lower tha
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It found people who sat for more than eight hours daily increased their risk for early death and heart disease by 20 percent.
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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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Modern lifestyles are increasingly sedentary and inactive, and the public health effects of this are only just starting to show up, says author and Guardian reporter Peter Walker
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Yes, standing desks are still worth the hype, according to a spinal and neurosurgeon, who says neck and back complaints are rife among workers.
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Len Kravitz, PhD, reviews studies suggesting that brief movement breaks after 30 minutes of sitting can help address the risks of sedentary lifestyles.
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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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Need another reason to move? Sedentary behavior was linked to an increased risk of fatal cancer.
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The irony is that we're staying home to protect our health, but all that added sitting is putting our health at risk in other ways.
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Australians sit on average for 10 hours a day, and this total is likely to have risen during the pandemic. Timely new research shows we need to move more for the sake of our mental health, too.
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Our bodies may be evolutionarily adapted to continual muscular activity, something we don’t achieve with chairs.
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The Hadza people of Tanzania live a lifestyle that has changed little over the past 10,000 years - and they are pictures of health.
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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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Sitting has been shown to be bad for your health, but a new study says some types of sitting are worse for you than others.
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High sitters who incorporated just 20 to 40 minutes of moderate intensity exercise into their day, drastically reduced their risk of premature death.
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We know, of course, that physical activity is good for us and being sedentary, for the most part, is not.
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The less sitting or lying down you do during the day, the better your chances for living a healthy life.
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(2018). A detailed description of the short-term musculoskeletal and cognitive effects of prolonged standing for office computer work. Ergonomics. Ahead of Print.
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Excessive sitting was linked to higher levels of troponins, the same proteins released after a heart attack.
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A new study suggests that getting up from your chair every half-hour or so could reduce the risk of an early death.
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A new study suggests that getting up from your chair every half-hour or so could reduce the risk of an early death.
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Sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death -- no matter how much you exercise.