"First of all, this is an epidemiological study that shows associations or relationships between sedentary time, sedentary breaks, and mortality," she told Gizmodo.
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This set of recommendations was made because it's not good for children to be sedentary, not because screen time is inherently worse than other sedentary activity.
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"Persons with uninterrupted sedentary bouts of 30 minutes or more had the highest risk for death if total sedentary time also exceeded 12.5 hours per day," noted Alter.
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People who were the most sedentary, about 12 hours per day, were 14 percent more likely than those who were sedentary only 2.5 hours per day to develop cardiovascular disease.
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In other words, the literature on sitting is likely confounded by these socioeconomic factors that may help explain why some sedentary people have worse health outcomes than other sedentary people.
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It was around this time that the Natufian people were transitioning from hunter-gatherers to a sedentary and semi-sedentary lifestyle—a transition that required the construction of permanent dwellings.
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In this sample pool, the participants were sedentary for an average of 12.3 hours over the course of a 16-hour day, while the mean duration of sedentary bout was 11.4 minutes.
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"Largely, we're becoming more sedentary as a nation, and one of the principal contributors to that rise in sedentary time is our computer usage," said Diaz, who did not participate in the research.
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You buy this trap monitor, and become even more sedentary.
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Ideally, activity monitors would goose you to avoid being sedentary.
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It will vibrate when you've been sedentary for too long.
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Those who had remained sedentary did not have stronger legs.
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It's also important to try to limit prolonged sedentary behavior.
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They also may grow more sedentary outside of exercise sessions.
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"Avoid gaining weight, try to avoid being sedentary," Blumenthal said.
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The researchers found that total accumulated sedentary time and longer bouts of sedentary time were associated with higher risk for all-cause mortality—even after adjusting for age, sex, race, BMI, or exercise habits.
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Also the results of this study cannot apply to an individual—that is, if an individual alters their sedentary time and pattern of sedentary time, this does not mean that their personal risk is changed.
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Past studies have shown that endurance athletes tend to have a somewhat different collection of microbes within their intestines than sedentary people do, especially if the athletes are lean and the sedentary people are not.
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But more moderate sedentary times were not tied to increased risk.
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It recommended limiting screen time on the basis that it's sedentary.
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He was overweight, out of shape and living a sedentary lifestyle.
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Kleiman's hospitalization only exacerbated what was already an isolated, sedentary lifestyle.
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Additionally, there may be a genetic component to people being sedentary.
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But a grey future is no excuse for a sedentary present.
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However, as a group, exercisers live significantly longer than sedentary adults.
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It's plainly obvious that excessive sedentary behavior is bad for us.
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Children may also have trouble in school or be more sedentary.
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I worry about claustrophobic, sedentary boat life with thousands of others.
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Their design pushes the figure out of its familiar sedentary stance.
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And playing mostly with screens means having a more sedentary life.
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To look into those issues, they recruited 30 overweight, sedentary men.
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One, serving as a control, continued with their normal, sedentary lives.
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But there were no meaningful changes for people who remained sedentary.
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As backwards as it sounds, the sedentary lifestyle can get exhausting.
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Compared to the least sedentary people with the briefest stretches of sitting time, the most sedentary people with the longest periods of sitting down were twice as likely to die of all cause during the study period.
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Essentially sedentary, the animals are easy to collect, particularly in shallow water.
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Many of those killed were sedentary farmers, mostly from the Bachama tribe.
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Several studies also show a link between sedentary time and heart disease.
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Other studies tie increasing sedentary time to earlier death, the committee writes.
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"We are more sedentary now that we ever have been," says Pasternak.
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Not surprisingly, sedentary women were also 20023% more likely to be obese.
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" He said the third concern was the "elements that encourage sedentary lifestyle.
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"Exercise is safe and being sedentary is far more dangerous," Moholdt said.
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There also has been considerable research linking sedentary lifestyles with health concerns.
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They found that the sedentary group showed the usual effects of time.
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But their newborn cells behaved differently than those in the sedentary rats.
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Others were not given running wheels and remained sedentary throughout the study.
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If your goal is to live longer (and better), don't be sedentary.
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Those who are sedentary report an average of 18 additional down days.
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"Sedentary time" included any low-activity periods, like sitting, watching TV or driving.
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In the end, this challenge can help you revamp your normal sedentary routines.
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For sedentary folks who live in urban areas, commuting is a daily nightmare.
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Might sedentary office workers indoors, also be slowed down by poor air quality?
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And her lifestyle had turned sedentary, despite having played sports in high school.
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Statistically, their life expectancy rate was comparable to that of the sedentary subjects.
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All of the people were relatively sedentary for most of their adult lives.
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Smoking, stress, sedentary lifestyles, and alcohol and drug use are all also implicated.
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All told, Americans now spend up to nine hours each day being sedentary.
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Others among them wish to escape the loneliness of an increasingly sedentary retirement.
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Then some of the rats were allowed to run while others remained sedentary.
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They were more likely to be men, younger, sedentary, and drink more alcohol.
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Last year, I spent four months working my way from sedentary to active.
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The consequences of Mr. Trump's sedentary lifestyle may be reflected in the readout.
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Perhaps most telling: You are sleepy during the day, especially when you're sedentary.
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Now in his 60s, he had decided he wanted a more sedentary existence.
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For some, sedentary time is a marker, not the cause, of bad outcomes.
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Saunders, 29, does not want his children to grow up spoiled or sedentary.
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The WHO also recommends reading and storytelling with a caregiver during sedentary time.
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The 1,635 participants were sedentary adults, ages 70 to 89, with physical limitations.
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"The message is that we should try not to be sedentary," she said.
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The resulting lifestyle is often unhealthy, requiring long sedentary periods with little sleep.
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Researchers sorted participants into four groups from the least sedentary people, who spent only about 11 hours total sitting and standing in a typical day, to the most sedentary people who were inactive for more than 13 hours a day.
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Sedentary time has also been independently linked to an increased risk of premature death.
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It's Bluetooth-compatible and includes a pedometer, sleep tracker, exercise tracker, and sedentary reminder.
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Growing appetites for processed food and more sedentary lives are leading to bigger waistlines.
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When we binge, we not only tend to remain sedentary, we also often snack.
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There could be a number of explanations for people being sedentary, the committee writes.
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I used to use my legs a lot, now I'm a little more sedentary.
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But little similar work exists for other sedentary species, let alone slippery migratory ones.
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"This is about making the shift from sedentary time to playtime, while protecting sleep. "
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For lower-limb amputees, the cheapest answer is a wheelchair and a sedentary existence.
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Because he's a 'roo who knows how to live: sedentary and in the sun.
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During waking hours, participants were housed in a private room and kept basically sedentary.
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In the current study, sedentary women were 21% more likely to experience hot flashes.
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If you stop stretching and moving, your muscles will adapt to your sedentary lifestyle.
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To measure sedentary time for these adults, the research team used hip-mounted accelerometers.
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Where to be well fed and sedentary is a mark of health and wealth.
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While larger, sedentary civilizations often worshiped entities responsible for protecting elements like human affairs.
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Well-exercised dogs also tend to be leaner and better behaved than sedentary canines.
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Simply reducing sedentary behavior by engaging in more active leisure time can also help.
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Recent research has associated a number of poor health conditions with a sedentary lifestyle.
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"This is about making the shift from sedentary time to playtime, while protecting sleep."
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"But a sedentary lifestyle means that people are gradually becoming weaker over time," he says.
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There is one thing that protects against the potential ravages of a sedentary lifestyle: exercise.
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Trump himself defended his exercise regimen in January, rebutting Jackson's claims that he's too sedentary.
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The pant was not necessary for the sedentary senator who functioned well in a toga.
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Perhaps most important is ensuring that older adults remain physically active and don't become sedentary.
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"Move!" the watchface says when you've been sedentary for too long, vibrating on your wrist.
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"Our concept takes that sedentary time and transforms it into active time," Eric tells PEOPLE.
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Two studies in 2010, linked sedentary behavior to an increased risk of depression and cancer.
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Will the real conclusive study on the health effects of sedentary behavior PLEASE stand up???
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People over age 60 spend up to an average of 10 hours a day sedentary.
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"Motivating people to go from sedentary to physically active is a good focus," said Bisognano.
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As total sedentary time increased, so did early death by any cause, the results indicated.
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So sedentary status cannot be defined by how many or few daily steps you manage.
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Or a biodegradable treadmill that knows when you've just given into a blissful, sedentary life.
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Sedentary people are more likely than physically fit people to develop a number of diseases.
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These individuals are a minority, are usually sedentary, and already at a low body weight.
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Mistakenly described as "sedentary," even "harmless," they can be every bit as lethal as grizzlies.
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But they're also long-lived, entering sedentary adulthood that could allow molecular life to flourish.
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If you're currently sedentary or have a serious chronic illness, check first with your doctor.
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Inventing agriculture, for example, helped us transform ourselves from nomadic hunter-gatherers into sedentary civilizations.
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We know that physical activity is good for us, and that being sedentary is not.
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So the scientists subsequently turned to laboratory mice, having some run and others remain sedentary.
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To check, the team examined the pathogen-recognition genes in 32 sedentary and migratory species.
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But others' willingness can waver at this time of year, and they become more sedentary.
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But I was far more sedentary both in college and immediately after, living in Chicago.
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Todd blames the sedentary lifestyle of Americans for the explosion of diabetes and prediabetes cases.
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And those that had remained sedentary displayed the expected physical hallmarks of being that age.
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The vesicles are not found to the same extent in the bloodstreams of the sedentary.
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Our indoor and sedentary lifestyles are contributing to obesity, chronic disease, stress, anxiety and depression.
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In consequence, being sedentary can increase our risks for diabetes, heart disease and premature death.
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Now we're all intellectual workers, a lot of us are at least, or sedentary workers.
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For this competition, sedentary athletes will have to play an actual game of golf — because c'mon.
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The sedentary aspect of this is huge and these devices are killing us in that respect.
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An unhappy marriage had led her to seek comfort in food, and her lifestyle was sedentary.
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"By working on those aspects first, screen time and sedentary behaviors should naturally stay fairly low."
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Every extra 10 minutes women spent sedentary was associated with 1.4 percent higher IL-6 levels.
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Sedentary species use less energy, so in lean times they may outlast those with bigger appetites.
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Some previous research has also linked sedentary time to poor academic achievement and low self-esteem.
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Research has found that sedentary lifestyles are linked to everything from heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.
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" Blumenthal noted, "Remember, these are older adults who are completely sedentary and have verified cognitive impairments.
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As expected, the group with the most prolonged sedentary patterns had the most women with diabetes.
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Poverty, bad diets, and sedentary lifestyles form the backbone of a majority of these chronic illnesses.
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As my two 533-year-olds and I quickly found, playing Pokémon Go is not sedentary.
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Obesity, sedentary lifestyles, technology and poor diet have all been linked to back and neck pain.
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Troy believes the long, sedentary hours contribute to the internal belief that 911 telecommunicators are lazy.
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If you move to a community where a sedentary lifestyle is the norm, you join that.
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In the end, they wound up with 249 participants who were overweight or obese and sedentary.
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Dynamic sitting also seems to lessen one of the most worrisome health effects of being sedentary.
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After a month, some of the sedentary animals were exposed to three days of stressful experiences.
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For at least 10 hours each day, accelerometers recorded whether the child moved or was sedentary.
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In one much-cited study, elderly runners developed knee arthritis at lower rates than sedentary people.
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A lot of the time, people with disabilities stay at home a lot and become sedentary.
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Obesity, smoking, heavy use of alcohol and sedentary lifestyles are also associated with an increased risk.
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Even a sedentary day of just sitting on the sofa all requires energy in your body.
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They began by recruiting 53 sedentary but otherwise healthy men and women in their early 60s.
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Overweight and living a "very sedentary" lifestyle, Karla Kelton knew she had to curb her unhealthy habits.
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It was only at 56 that her sister convinced the once sedentary Shepherd to join a gym.
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All of the participants were sedentary but generally healthy and had not smoked in the previous year.
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Sedentary screen time should be kept to no more than 1 hour for children aged 2–4.
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A sedentary lifestyle as well as a diet often rich in oil and sugar have been blamed.
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When the subjects were engaged in sedentary activities, like using a computer, the devices did relatively well.
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Other possible factors could include sedentary lifestyles, environmental exposures and diets high in processed foods, he said.
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"Both high sedentary behavior and physical inactivity have negative health effects," the authors of the study said.
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"It is now very clear that overweight, obesity and sedentary lifestyles are harmful to health," Carslake said.
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It had Windows Phone for when you were mobile, and Windows proper for when you were sedentary.
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Punk often punted on these questions through the Obama years and grew sedentary, probably too much so.
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In the older sedentary people, the output of new T cells from the thymus glands was low.
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But he did say that Mr. Trump's weight is 2003 pounds and that he is too sedentary.
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Others had been active when young but tailed off as adults, remaining mostly sedentary during middle age.
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But sedentary adult dogs such as Chihuahuas and Great Danes may need less physical and mental stimulation.
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Instead, the runners' brains contained the same number of new neurons as those of the sedentary animals.
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We already have considerable evidence, of course, that children in the Western world tend to be sedentary.
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The volunteers all had documented mild cognitive decline, often a precursor to dementia, and were relatively sedentary.
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Video games by and large were sedentary, meant to be played in a comfortable chair ad infinitum.
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Consider an Incentive A meta-analysis of exercise programs concluded that previously sedentary adults respond to incentive.
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One research study found that even one additional hour of sedentary behavior (watching videos) was associated with a decline in immune function in young males, and a large study found that sedentary behavior is also associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and risk of dying.
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Being able to pack up and move livestock to fresh pastures gives them an advantage over sedentary farmers.
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The WHO called for more research on the distinction between screen-based and non-screen-based sedentary time.
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What about their activity level — were the people sedentary and non-active in the beginning, or lifelong runners?
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Any time I'd open it, I'd be confronted by the inactivity of my sedentary life and work style.
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They are not looking at how much they ate, or that they smoke or that they are sedentary.
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And children under the age of two shouldn't engage in sedentary screen time at all, the WHO says.
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Other risk factors are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and stress, Steinbaum said.
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But the researchers also saw that it was more work on their brains to avoid the sedentary behaviors.
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In fact, 19 year olds age spent as much time being inactive and sedentary as 60 year olds.
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That's because these people stopped wandering around as much, becoming more sedentary and tending to crops and livestock.
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Even in the summer, I try to keep myself on a schedule so I don't become too sedentary.
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Even when the market is sedentary, Jim Cramer knows there is always something else brewing under the surface.
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Among adults 60 and older, men were more sedentary and had lower light-intensity activity levels than women.
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"As we age, and our physical and mental function declines, we become more and more sedentary," wrote Diaz.
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Mr. Bloomberg was ready to make the transition, to be less sedentary and more engaged in city life.
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A sedentary lifestyle is the real culprit behind most chronic diseases, especially heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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They found some irisin in sedentary people, but the levels were much higher in those who exercise often.
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The sedentary rats given alcohol had almost 20 percent fewer neurons in their hippocampi than the control animals.
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So, our expectations about what is normal during aging are based on how growing older affects sedentary people.
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PHYS ED People who exercise have different proteins moving through their bloodstreams than those who are generally sedentary.
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Such environments offer an alternative to sedentary, car-dependent sprawl, an antidote to growing health problems like obesity.
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In effect, aspects of the exercisers' everyday physiology appear to be unlike those of people who are sedentary.
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In one study, Dr. Levine put sedentary young men and young women through a year of athletic training.
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In general, the participants turned out to be fairly sedentary, which makes them typical of most of us.
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That situation changed dramatically when the agricultural revolution replaced a nomadic with a sedentary lifestyle 10,000 years ago.
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We need to change our relationship to movement, infusing it often and everywhere so we are less sedentary.
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This is bad news considering a sedentary lifestyle increases your chances of cancer, obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
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Obesity and sedentary lifestyles, for example, are linked to colorectal cancer, as are poor diets low in fiber.
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But he found it hard to see how Aboriginal Australians could have remained so sedentary for so long.
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Where he stood to improve, Dr. Jackson said, was in moderating his sedentary lifestyle and love of sweets.
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Pastoralist children are generally less educated than their sedentary peers, making it harder for them to find other jobs.
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The older cyclists, they found, overall had higher levels of young, freshly made T-cells than their sedentary counterparts.
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They used this data to estimate the effects of someone replacing sedentary behavior with any amount of physical activity.
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They become more sedentary because they fear movement, they fear injuring themselves -- and this is how chronic pain develops.
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Sedentary lifestyle: A lack of physical activity lowers HDL cholesterol, which keeps it from effectively removing your LDL cholesterol.
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But if you live a sedentary lifestyle and don't eat a healthy diet, the fat will come right back.
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The Think & Learn Smart Cycle isn't being marketed to kids as a way to help counteract their sedentary lifestyles.
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These discoveries suggested that adult sea cucumbers, far from being sedentary, do indeed use ocean currents to move about.
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Is there anything you miss about your former, more sedentary lifestyle when you weren't making time to stay active?
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Michos likes to say that "sitting is the new smoking," because of the ill effects of a sedentary life.
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The more sedentary we are, the greater our risk of developing conditions like diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart disease.
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The greatest health risk from electronic devices is not the radiation they produce, their encouragement of a sedentary lifestyle.
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The shapes these gargantuan gourds take on betray their overfed sedentary lifestyle; they are nothing if not obese pumpkins.
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The study also wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove how or whether sedentary time directly causes premature death.
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There are efficient ways the body is supposed to move, but these often gets compromised with modern sedentary lifestyles.
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Reader Question • 621 votes Your simple question requires a surprisingly complicated answer, because steps, by definition, cannot be sedentary.
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One group was allowed to eat as much kibble as they wished and to remain sedentary in their cages.
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That was the advice I got, along with speeches about the American diet of processed foods and sedentary lifestyle.
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Not to mention the expense of dealing with health problems that can result from being overweight and sedentary living.
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As of today, the average older adult spends between 753 percent and 86 percent of their waking day sedentary.
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More serious runners, however, were just as likely as the sedentary types to kick the bucket during the study.
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His competitive future was a question mark last December because his balky back made even a sedentary existence difficult.
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Twelve hours a day of sedentary time was associated with an almost tripled risk of death during the study.
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But the findings also show that dog owners can remain sedentary and their reasons should be investigated, she says.
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In fact, having weak social networks is a greater risk factor for dying early than being obese or sedentary.
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Studies indicate that most children reach their activity peak at about age 7 and become more sedentary throughout adolescence.
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After six weeks, the wheels were removed and all of the animals became sedentary as they eased into adulthood.
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Lab rodents given access to running wheels create and maintain memories better than animals that are sedentary, for instance.
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Sedentary behavior increased as the children grew older, the study found, with depression scores highest among the least active.
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And the games help counter the stereotype of the sedentary player, sitting in a chair for hours on end.
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Many studies have found that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
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His heart was engorged, possibly the result of sedentary days and nights in the indulgent vortex of the studio.
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Get moving Wildlife safaris are wonderful, but they tend to be sedentary, full of long drives and big meals.
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All Civ games begin with a settler unit, and your first choice is where to settle, to become sedentary.
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A new study reveals that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
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As for physical well-being, every hour spent on a device is likely to be an indoor, sedentary one.
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That may seem surprising given that chess is a sedentary game, but a mental workout can burn calories too.
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Corporate and personal tax cuts will simply take out of circulation money that was revolving, albeit at a sedentary pace.
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In general, though, a sedentary person will need about 0.36 grams of protein a day for each pound they weigh.
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Breaks in sedentary time are good, even if you don't have access to a walking or cycling workstation, Gaesser said.
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Sedentary athletes aren't boaters — and they're not exactly swimmers, runners, dancers, walkers, jumpers, hoppers, skippers, gallopers, racers or movers either.
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In this competition, points will be awarded to any sedentary athlete who even entertains the thought of getting a bike.
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City dwellers have greater access to Western foods, including those rich in fats and sugars, and lead more sedentary lifestyles.
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"Sedentary behaviors are still problematic," said Dr. Stephanie Zaza (PDF), director of the CDC's division of Adolescent and School Health.
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"Historically, women have not been particularly well served by the sedentary nature and limited distribution of traditional games," Lazarus said.
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Cao believes that her research, published Tuesday in JAMA, will help Americans better understand our sedentary habits -- and change them.
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Based on these ratings, the researchers classified participants into high, low, and moderate physical activity groups, plus a sedentary group.
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If it is seen as a sedentary species, then it is a resource belonging to the continental shelf of Norway.
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Nearly half of China's 2m registered nomads had become sedentary by 2010 (the most recent date for which data exist).
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In his mind, he's delivering "a profound metabolic truth" about diet and exercise to a fat, sedentary, disease-ridden population.
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If you are a sedentary person living in a small apartment, you're not going to want a big, rambunctious puppy.
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This more sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of physical and mental health issues like obesity, diabetes and attention deficit disorder.
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You see it today: We have jobs that are more and more demanding and we've become more and more sedentary.
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The devices monitored how much time they spent being sedentary or participating in light or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
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I wanted to sleep better, hit the top of the subway stairs without getting winded, and generally feel less sedentary.
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But also try to stand up frequently throughout the day, so that you are both physically active and not sedentary.
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They began by recruiting 64 sedentary men and women aged 60 or older and measuring their fitness and thinking skills.
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But I've never been sedentary, and becoming a mother certainly didn't have me sitting on the couch eating potato chips.
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Living a sedentary lifestyle can have damaging effects, explains Cole, so don't let these habits have ramifications on your health.
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The squats were one more way to add some movement into the ever-increasing sedentary lifestyle of a working adult.
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Or even legally, given that the laws around industries like banking aren't designed for high growth, but rather sedentary expansion.
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So the hunter-gatherers were healthier than those who switched over to the more sedentary agricultural lifestyle — at least initially.
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Researchers in Australia took young, healthy male rats and kept some of them sedentary while making others run on treadmills.
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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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Being sedentary for 9.5 hours or more a day, excluding sleeping time, is associated with an increased risk of death.
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A sedentary lump (he looks as if he's taken root), Ki-taek doesn't have a lot obviously going for him.
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Already, a wealth of research indicates that older athletes — known as masters — age differently than older people who are sedentary.
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The Nintendo Wii, for instance, was heralded as fight against a sedentary population to which video games have significantly contributed.
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Older people also tend to have more aches and pains and to be more sedentary, engaging in fewer physical activities.
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Conversely, a study of female marathon runners found that they had less evidence of coronary plaques than their sedentary counterparts.
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If you move your body a little each day, you will be far better off than if you are sedentary.
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Mr. Kandola said that by age 266.9, young people in the study were spending an average of close to nine hours a day on sedentary activity, and that it would be hard to decrease that behavior significantly through exercise, because it would require lots of exercise to significantly reduce that amount of sedentary time.
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Unfortunately, though standing desks have been heavily promoted as the antidote to our sedentary lifestyle, their benefits have been grossly oversold.
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In appropriating an object like a Snuggie I wanted to talk very specifically about a kind of everyday, consumerist, sedentary, complacency.
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For most of the cities in the path of the storm, including Houston, a sedentary stoicism seemed the most reasonable response.
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That kind of "getting soft" carried over into my adult life working in IT—behind a desk, very stagnant, very sedentary.
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"Lymphatic drainage can be very helpful after long flights, and for those with sedentary jobs, and those feeling sluggish," she says.
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The current study focused on 100 overweight and obese women who were sedentary and had recently completed treatment for breast cancer.
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"The idea that sedentary behavior by itself is injurious and can't be overcome by exercise is not really true," he says.
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Many people would be willing to swap a sedentary commute with a little exercise and fresh air, especially in good weather.
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Most human studies on sedentary behavior—and really, most studies in general—have only looked at white people of European descent.
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Thanks to the usual combo of poor diet and sedentary lifestyle—meat, fat, desks—a person will have a heart attack.
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And in some ways that makes sense; the evidence that scientists have for prehistoric warfare has come from settled, sedentary communities.
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About 14 percent of the people in the study typically had stretches of sedentary time lasting at least 90 minutes, however.
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However, most studies have not followed a group of people over a long period of time while tracking their sedentary behavior.
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In May 2018, I decided to overhaul my health and make a change from the largely sedentary lifestyle I was leading.
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Presumably as a result, people and animals that exercise tend to have sturdier memories and cognitive skills than their sedentary counterparts.
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Indeed, it can be sedentary, as the characters chivvy us to the edge of our seats without getting up from theirs.
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Behind the masses of those that wish to watch you lead a quiet and sedentary life is an open, unlined canvas.
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" Comparing those with a sedentary lifestyle to the top exercise performers, he said, the risk associated with death is "500% higher.
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" For patients, especially those who live a sedentary lifestyle, Jaber said, "You should demand a prescription from your doctor for exercise.
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Eat better Being sedentary is a big reason for expensive chronic diseases, but poor diet plays a huge role as well.
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"I'm the person standing at the back of the conference -- standing burns much more energy than being completely sedentary," he says.
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Rates soared when tribes that previously had little exposure to outside contact met Western-like calorie-rich diets and sedentary occupations.
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Mr. Bugaev is a dedicated, if largely sedentary, Cossack, a centuries-old fraternity of Slavic warriors, freebooters and freedom-loving rebels.
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When pregnant rats ran on wheels, their pups performed better on a memory test compared with those born to sedentary ones.
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"It is the answer to sedentary game play that is often the focus of video games in popular media," Alexander said.
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To calculate that based on pounds, multiply your weight by 0.36 to find the basic number if you're a sedentary person.
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The reasons so many people remain so sedentary are numerous and complex, studies show, ranging from jammed schedules to unwalkable neighborhoods.
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Previous studies have repeatedly suggested that any type of sedentary behavior, such as sitting still, is not good for your health.
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Biologists have long believed that fat cells lead sedentary lives, unable to move themselves around the body once they get settled.
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If we spend an hour working out, that's one hour less during our day that we can potentially spend being sedentary.
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"However, we are in the midst of a global epidemic of obesity and sedentary lifestyle," he told Reuters Health by email.
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When they joined the experiment, people had been generally sedentary, getting moderate-intensity physical activity less than two days a week.
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This must be due, in part, to the fact that we sedentary people are no longer isolated from the wider world.
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But those men also are less likely than more sedentary people to die prematurely from a heart attack or other cause.
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On average, a sedentary person would have to earn an additional $25,000 to be as happy as a person who exercises.
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It will also make it harder to attract and retain new recruits from a civilian population that's more sedentary than ever.
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Under communism, the Roma were forced to become sedentary: They were seen as a project proving communism was better than capitalism.
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Vadim Zipunnikov, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says the study is important in that it's the first to explore the joint effect of excessive total sedentary time and prolonged sedentary bouts on mortality in a national sample pool, but like Garber, he has some reservations.
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"If you have a sedentary occupation, especially in a sitting position for hours, you should move yourself out of work at least 150 minutes per week in a moderate intensity to mitigate the detrimental effects of sedentary behavior at work," Eduardo Caldas Costa from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal told Reuters Health.
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"Pisces is too sensitive for Gemini, and Cancer is too sedentary — Cancer wants to be on the sofa at home," Stellas explains.
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Risk only started to increase after more than 10 hours of sedentary time per day, according to the results in JAMA Cardiology.
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When a prospective meal is detected, the female, who is otherwise sedentary, makes a sudden dash in the direction of the target.
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Perhaps easier said than done, but "whether the brain's automatic attraction to sedentary behaviors can be retrained is unknown yet," Boisgontier says.
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For example, light exercisers were 21% less likely than sedentary people to get UTI medications, and moderate exercisers were 32% less likely.
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The research found that sedentary older adults who walked in the morning for 30 minutes experienced a noticeable drop in blood pressure.
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Many occupations deliver stress, sedentary behavior, and unhealthy habits along with the paycheck, which can take their toll both physically and mentally.
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Compared to cisgender Americans, transgender individuals were more likely to be sedentary, current smokers, and uninsured, researchers report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Most were physically inactive at the first screening, and almost four in five of these people remained sedentary throughout the study period.
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Even seemingly harmless desk jobs are killing us, thanks to the stressful environment and sedentary nature of many modern-day office gigs.
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A new study from the Lancet shows that the health consequences of sedentary lifestyles are costing the US $27.8 billion a year.
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The first is that once we had sedentary agriculture, we then had investment in land and therefore property that could be taxed.
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In each study, the brains of the rodents that exercised after receiving alcohol were substantially different from those of their sedentary counterparts.
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What's more, 45 percent said they would have been sedentary if they hadn't been walking, running, cycling, or skateboarding on the route.
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To most of us, it seems obvious that when we are physically active, we burn more calories than when we are sedentary.
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After exposure to beta amyloid, they performed about as poorly on memory tests as sedentary animals with beta amyloid in their brains.
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But all of the athletes' heart rates were much lower than is typical for sedentary people, signifying that their hearts were robust.
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"When animals are sedentary, sometimes yawning exposes their teeth and shows them to be potentially aggressive," Dr. Barone said of another theory.
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Their pedaling was associated with a lengthier life span, adding an average of 3.7 years to riders' lives, compared to sedentary Danes.
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"Sedentary populations of monarchs occur naturally in the Caribbean islands, Trinidad, Bermuda and South America," he told The Chicago Tribune in 1998.
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The sedentary Bostonians in this study, he points out, although still young, had hearts that already were hardening and blood pressures rising.
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But I would not have the quality of autopilot I have if I were trying to autopilot as a fully sedentary person.
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Interestingly, these statin-associated muscular problems were no greater among the runners than among the sedentary animals taking statins, the researchers found.
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The study, which involved sedentary men and moderate cycling, suggests that whether and when we eat may affect how exercise affects us.
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In fact, those youngsters' levels were about the same at birth and during childhood as in the babies born to sedentary dads.
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The study suggests that "interrupting sedentary time" would help reduce this risk and that even very short breaks can make a difference.
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People who want to conceive should still try to limit sedentary time, Khoo, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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Mr. Biden responded that he was "not sedentary" and fired back after the man said he would not be voting for him.
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Women were more likely to experience sexual dysfunction when they were ex-smokers, overweight, sedentary or experiencing hot flashes, the study found.
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Likewise, a study of sedentary older men found that after eight weeks of daily walking, they urinated less frequently during the night.
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It only takes about 0.5 to 0.7 grams per pound of body weight for sedentary people to meet their daily recommended intakes.
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Their intestines had contained more of this microbe than the guts of sedentary people before the race, but afterward, the numbers soared.
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More exercise could save 75,000 lives per year, he said, and sedentary lifestyles are responsible for $117 billion in annual health care costs.
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If your dog's puke is green or your cat seems unusually sedentary, combing the Internet for answers can just make you more worried.
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It hadn't been clear exactly how much sedentary time should be avoided to lower cardiovascular disease risk, Pandey told Reuters Health by email.
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It is definitely a public health issue, since the top contributing factors are substance abuse, diabetes, poor nutrition and sedentary lifestyle, Kessler said.
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In those same areas, life expectancy shows the impact of obesity, diabetes, sedentary lifestyle, poor nutrition and lack of access to health care.
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London artist Maximo Riera recently decided to combine our love of all things adorable and sedentary with his latest collection of animal chairs.
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Research just published shows 30-40% of media stories on sedentary behaviour promote misleading messages, such as sitting undoes the benefits of exercise.
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They are using it not only at work, but also bringing it home to use while watching television or doing other sedentary activities.
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Most of the existing studies of inactivity show a link between time spent being sedentary and an increased risk of diabetes, for instance.
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People living in many areas in the south are twice as likely to be smokers and be sedentary than people living in Utah.
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And many do want scooter-share to work: Scooters might be a tool in the fight against car traffic, emissions, and sedentary lifestyles.
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Exercise actually makes you eat more, plus people tend to become pretty sedentary after the exercise session ends, the New York Times reported.
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On Wednesday, the United Nations' public health agency released its first guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep for children under 1803.
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Like most sedentary office workers, we don't typically get a ton of chances to forcefully drag an opponent to the mud-soaked ground.
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Research in women has found that those who are physically active report greater sexual desire, arousal and satisfaction than women who are sedentary.
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These women were also more likely to be overweight or obese and to have a sedentary lifestyle at the beginning of the study.
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A poor diet and sedentary lifestyle are often big contributors, but widowmaker heart attacks can also occur in seemingly healthy people without warning.
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Morris, however, suspected that the frequency of heart attack might correlate with sedentary occupations, and so he turned to the double-decker bus.
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In the sedentary mice, these molecules swarmed so densely over the gene that they blocked signals that tell the gene to turn on.
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Lifting things for a living is hard work — and so is standing for an entire day if you're used to a sedentary lifestyle.
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Analyzing the data, the team found that sedentary behavior, on average, accounted for about 12.3 hours of an average 16-hour waking day.
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It would be like studying an intensive exercise program — including long runs, calisthenics and strenuous sports — among sedentary volunteers for just six days.
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Plus, there's the time spent in a car or on public transportation commuting to and from work that adds to this sedentary lifestyle.
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These factors include obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, a "Western" diet high in carbohydrates, and sugar-sweetened beverages, Fuchs said in a phone interview.
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"Many first-year college students experience weight gain often stemming from sedentary lifestyles and poor dietary patterns," she told Reuters Health by email.
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Limitations include its reliance on survey participants to accurately recall and report on how much time they spent engaged in various sedentary pursuits.
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Bedridden for a time, Valadon turned to the one sedentary occupation that could hold her attention: drawing, at which she had always excelled.
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It might be around this moment, at the beginning of becoming sedentary people that we imagined what constitutes a house, or a home.
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People who were sedentary for 10 hours a day were 48% more likely to die during the study than people who moved more.
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" But Dr. Jackson repeatedly expressed concern about the president's sedentary lifestyle, noting that Mr. Trump does not have a "dedicated, defined exercise program.
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By age 11, children were spending an average of almost two more hours a day in sedentary behavior than they were at 6.
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If it sounds like I go to the gym nearly every day, I pretty much do because my job is long sedentary hours.
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It found that sedentary, middle-aged people who took up aerobic exercise for six months developed longer telomeres in their white blood cells.
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One explanation for this sedentary behavior, Dr. Jessop proposed, is that once you're isolated on an island, any mistakes could be extremely costly.
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Like many Americans, my mom had a very sedentary lifestyle, spending hours sitting and watching TV. She didn't cook healthy meals for herself.
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The impacts were even more substantial when the researchers assumed that 100 percent of the children who are now sedentary got regular exercise.
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I drifted into the sedentary life of the French countryside, begun with long morning walks into the village for a coffee and croissant.
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ADA SpecificationsThis is a largely sedentary position that requires the ability to speak, hear, see and lift small objects up to 20 lbs.
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"Eliminate additional cardiovascular risk factors, such as overweight, sedentary lifestyle and smoking," suggests coauthor Dr. Urs Scherrer of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
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The sharing economy has also offered more sedentary options for those less inclined to get their heart rates up: capsule beds for napping.
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" Biden walked toward the man as he responded and then drily challenged him to a pushup contest to show he was "not sedentary.
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Many of the study participants turned out to be sitters, remaining sedentary for as much as 10 hours or more on most days.
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"Most of the cardiovascular literature, including other work from our group, suggests that both exercise and being less sedentary are important," he says.
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Plus, the animals' sedentary lifestyle and the fact that they sleep up to 18 hours a day also adds to the challenge of detection.
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Teens who engaged in other sedentary activities that did not involve screens such as reading did not report getting less sleep than their peers.
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But for every 30 minutes of sedentary time, the researchers found that the likelihood of death among the study participants increased by about 19%.
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The ability to prevent or reverse fluid pooling, allowing individuals to maintain cardiac output, should, in theory, help these individuals maintain RMR while sedentary.
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Maybe the Pie Tops represent the idea that technology, which has contributed to our sedentary nature and obesity epidemics, can help reverse the trend.
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Sedentary athletes may struggle at traditional soccer, but they excel at its alternative form: kicking sh*t so everyone knows how angry they are.
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Indeed, the globe's shift to calorie-rich processed foods and more sedentary lifestyles has contributed significantly to the elevated rates of obesity among Samoans.
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Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph on Davies' comments, Steven Ward of not-for-profit health body UKactive also emphasised the dangers of sedentary lifestyle.
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Days that leave you wilted and aware of all the neglect your joints and muscles have endured during the last decade of sedentary YouTubing.
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About 13% of nurses reported high activity levels at work, 34% described their exertion level as moderate and 19% said they were generally sedentary.
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Mass migration to cities has allowed some Africans to go from malnourished to overweight in a generation, thanks to sedentary lifestyles and fatty diets.
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Overall, it's a pretty bleak picture, describing sedentary kids and teens whose lack of exercise may be a contributing factor in the obesity epidemic.
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Most of us sit more than we should, and a majority of our sitting time occurs at work, since many modern professions are sedentary.
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With 82 million Americans choosing a sedentary lifestyle, the "wonder solution" is legislation that encourages exercise — either at home, in a gym or outdoors.
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While the snarling tigers held the audience rapt, a performance by donkeys — they hopped over sedentary llamas — lacked a how-did-they-do-that?
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But a new study goes one step further, finding that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
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Poor diet and sedentary behavior have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
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But only the Pennington participants had to also spend 24 sedentary hours inside a sealed room that recorded the contents of their every breath.
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And, on more than one occasion, its sedentary sensors shamed me out of bed when I'd languished too long after my alarm went off.
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In fact, if this is what Trump is doing, it's the opposite of what is recommended for an obese, largely sedentary man of 73.
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The efficiency of a trained runner's heart compared with that of a sedentary person has been understood for many years and is well documented.
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It also raises interesting questions about whether a sedentary lifestyle could cause us to pack on pounds in part by discombobulating our sensitive bones.
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There are many reasons so many of us are sedentary, but most behavioral scientists agree that our attitudes about exercise play a defining role.
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Recent studies have found that older athletes have healthier muscles, brains, immune systems and hearts than people of the same age who are sedentary.
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The study found that adults who reported frequently participating in tennis or other racket and team sports lived longer than people who were sedentary.
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The incidence of obesity, especially extreme obesity, was much lower among active people than the sedentary, whether their activity was aerobic or resistance-oriented.
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What is the correct balance of cardio and weightlifting for someone like me, who otherwise has to be sedentary at a desk all day?
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They also had greater endurance capacity, as well as more muscle mass in their hind legs than the sedentary animals, and they scampered faster.
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Think of the insanity of becoming sedentary and wasting time with mind-numbing electronic content, then wearing that experience as a badge of honor.
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Those who engaged in the highest levels of this type of physical activity level lived on average 5.5 years longer than their sedentary counterparts.
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"What we found is that 6 months of exercise in certain people who were otherwise sedentary altered the brain response to food," Cornier said.
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The researchers compared bones of prehistoric women from agricultural communities with modern-day elite athletes, such as rowers, as well as sedentary modern women.
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Perhaps most alarmingly, sedentary behavior has also been linked to mortality; the more you sit, the more likely you are to meet an untimely end.
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Despite going from being mostly sedentary to spending a couple of hours exercising almost every day, the participants only lost about 11 pounds on average.
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Obesity may not be a direct cause of colorectal cancer, Siegel said, though it may share common risks -- such as sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets.
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Adjustable desks that allow a sitting and standing option (sit-stand desks) could be a good first step, especially for very sedentary and unfit workers.
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Commonly called "secondary hearts," these muscles pump blood back to our heart, allowing us to maintain our normal rate of metabolic activity during sedentary activities.
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"Starting the task of building back all the muscle I lost while pregnant and being sedentary," she captioned the photo of herself doing weighted squats.
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Standing desks have become more popular, partly in response to the fear of sedentary behavior, but this quick tech fix might not be the answer.
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He says there are three: the transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary farming, the invention of modern plumbing, and the age of dating apps.
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In 2013, Zhang's team found that messages are more efficiently relayed between brain cells in older adults who exercise, compared to those who are sedentary.
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All five of the U.S. gymnasts have said they're hoping to return to the Olympics in 2020, so they can't stay sedentary for too long.
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That can actually lower insurance costs across the board, since companies won't have to deal with certain issues that come with people leading sedentary lifestyles.
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The connection between poor health and being sedentary may be independent of the link connecting more physical activity with improved health, Young told Reuters Health.
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Earlier this week I spilled some digital ink complementing Colin Kaepernick's sedentary anthem protest, even as it was undermined by his choice of inflammatory hosiery.
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Earlier studies have shown that sedentary behavior can lead to type 2 diabetes and many other diseases including cardiovascular problems, cancer and other chronic conditions.
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Overall, sedentary behavior accounted for 77 percent of participants' waking hours, or about 113 hours a day, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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As I mentioned, stretching is a seemingly instinctive activity when you wake up -- or any other time when you've been sedentary for a prolonged period.
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For years, scientists have known that the brains of animals and people who regularly exercise are different than the brains of those who are sedentary.
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After 10 days of being sedentary, the erstwhile runners returned to the lab to repeat the earlier tests, including the M.R.I. scan of their brains.
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Their long-term memories were faultier than those of the sedentary mice, even though, the researchers found, their brains teemed with far more new neurons.
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Our lack of safe and peaceful walking places may also contribute to the nation's status as one of the more sedentary countries in the world.
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Regular aerobic exercise training reduces sedentary time, reduces appetite, improves cardiovascular performance and increases self-esteem and self-efficacy, Brand told Reuters Health by email.
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The study found that total physical activity dropped between ages 12 and 16, mostly because of decreases in that light activity, and sedentary behavior increased.
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The shift from farm to factory featured decades of bloody labor conflict; the move from factory to office and other sedentary jobs caused more upheaval.
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So sitting quietly was a useful survival strategy and may have built a predilection for being sedentary into the architecture of our brains, he says.
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Studies show that active people have lower incidences of heart disease, obesity and Type 403 diabetes and usually live longer than people who are sedentary.
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Meanwhile, those who either stayed sedentary or jumped on the wheel later on—during week two—sought out cocaine again when they had the chance.
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In five of the modules, in fact, levels of certain proteins varied, sometimes substantially, if someone exercised compared to if he or she were sedentary.
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As recently as last year, the players' typical day might have been a sedentary extravaganza of sugary energy drinks, fast food and unresolved psychic tension.
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It also used data about deaths from any cause, which might have included automobile or other accidents unlikely to have been affected by sedentary time.
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Neither study was designed to look into whether the running mice thought and remembered differently than mice that were sedentary for most of the day.
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They also became more proficient at recognizing proper sentences than the sedentary students, although that difference did not emerge until after several weeks of instruction.
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Many studies have found that people who regularly exercise are much less likely to develop or die from cardiac disease than people who are sedentary.
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People identified as Type D often also are sedentary, a few studies show, in part because they feel inadequate about taking part in physical activities.
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"Our human ancestors did not consume three regularly spaced large meals, plus snacks, every day, nor did they live a sedentary life," the researchers wrote.
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It's as though doing more (even when we're doing something as simple and sedentary as riding a train) with less is always the ultimate goal.
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We eat too much, we're too sedentary, so we get fatter — and this in turn causes the diabetes, Type 2, which is the common form.
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And speaking of the aforementioned Slim, Mississippi has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation, and its population is among the most sedentary.
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An older study found that longtime endurance athletes had about five times greater risk of the heart arrhythmia known as atrial fibrillation than sedentary individuals.
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Epidemiological studies have found, for example, that people who exercise or otherwise are active typically are less prone to depression and anxiety than sedentary people.
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Physically fit older people also tend to have more volume in their brain's hippocampus than do sedentary people of the same age, brain scans show.
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"You take care of somebody, and you see him gaining five pounds a year and being sedentary," he told U.S. News & World Report in 2006.
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"Replacing restrained or sedentary screen time with more moderate- to vigorous intensity physical activity, while preserving sufficient sleep, can provide additional health benefits," the report reads.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Around five years ago, 77-year-old Chan Jae Lee was recently retired, suffering from chronic pain, and increasingly sedentary.
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Over the last few years, there have been countless studies claiming links between our sedentary lifestyles and heart attacks, kidney diseases, chronic diseases, and colorectal cancer.
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By the late 1960s, obesity was becoming a pressing health concern as people became more sedentary and started eating highly processed foods and lots of sugar.
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Although some studies have shown health benefits to taking more than 10,000 steps per day, it's generally because moving is better than living a sedentary life.
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The shift from hunter-gathering to sedentary life produced the first villages, is symbolised here by a monumental, 8,500-year-old plasterwork statue with two heads.
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No matter how many times you try to deflect their workout dates with a suggestion for some other sedentary activity, this friend's fitness peer-pressuring persists.
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The quality of the current evidence prevented the committee from being able to say that people should stop being sedentary at particular intervals, the authors note.
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" In addition, for kids between the ages of 21.32 and 23, "sedentary screen time (such as watching TV or videos, playing computer games) is not recommended.
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That includes not only figuring out whether some types of sedentary behavior are worse, but whether different populations might be affected differently by too much sitting.
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For example, a woman in her 30s who does moderate exercise should consume 2,000 calories a day, whereas one who is sedentary should get 0.53,800 calories.
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Children whose parents are sedentary often tend to be inactive themselves, whereas parents who are physically active typically have children who move around and exercise often.
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We recruited over 6,000 women aged 65-99 from the Women's Health Initiative and measured their sedentary patterns for seven days using research-grade activity monitors.
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Experts note that in the summer, children do not have a strict, school-defined schedule, so they spend more sedentary time snacking in front of screens.
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Some sedentary people 50 and older who start workout routines may see improved cognition and neural health after as little as 6 weeks of aerobic exercise.
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The study estimated that in 2013, sedentary lifestyles worldwide cost a total of $143 billion, 40 percent of which ($27.8 billion) is attributed to the USA.
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The study estimated that in 2013, sedentary lifestyles worldwide cost a total of $67.5 billion, 40 percent of which ($693 billion) is attributed to the USA.
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Sedentary adults can lose 30 to 40 percent of the total number of fibers in their muscles by the time they are 80, Dr. Bamman says.
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The cyclists proved to have reflexes, memories, balance and metabolic profiles that more closely resembled those of 30-year-olds than of the sedentary older group.
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They also recruited an additional group of 16 healthy middle-aged and older men, half of whom were physically active and half of whom were sedentary.
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Moreover, the beveled edges, particularly those bordering the surfaces angled away from the dominant planes, suggest movement — something not quite still or sedentary in the world.
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To the usual causes — a rise in the consumption of junk food, a more sedentary urban lifestyle, more affordable cars — add a wave of motorbike imports.
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He and his research colleagues wondered if they might be common only among aging people who are sedentary and not among those who are physically active.
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Many of the children had never gone hiking or fishing before joining the program, and most would have been spending a more sedentary summer without it.
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Unlike most philosophers, for whom thinking is a sedentary activity, Latour insists on testing our taken-for-granted ideas about the world against the world itself.
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"The evidence is clear that going from nothing" — from being totally sedentary — "to something is helpful" for people completing or recovering from cancer treatment, she says.
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Physical activity guidelines are the same for pregnant and nonpregnant women, and those who have been sedentary are encouraged to take up moderate activities like walking.
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He's obviously a bit more sedentary (Stewart is now 79) and less a man of action, but the poetry in those elegant line readings still lingers.
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This raises the possibility that e-bikes could be well suited in helping both experienced cyclists and "more sedentary individuals" to meet their physical fitness goals.
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They produced more of a type of immune cell known to fight malignancies than did sedentary animals and were much less likely to develop invasive disease.
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Researchers took tissue samples of the animals' hearts either immediately after they had finished running or an hour later, and also gathered samples from sedentary mice.
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For too long, I've kept this aching to myself, blaming it on my sedentary lifestyle or on not going enough (or at all) to the gym.
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"Because they were more involved in activities, they were less sedentary, more physical activities; these aspects all together promote well-being, physical and psychological," he said.
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In one such experiment, sedentary postmenopausal women were assigned either moderately intense exercise (such as brisk walking) five days a week or once-a-week stretching.
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People who exercised were just as likely as sedentary peers to develop heart failure in the five years following a heart attack, the study also found.
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Physically active older people are, for instance, significantly less likely than those who are sedentary to develop mild cognitive impairment, a frequent precursor to Alzheimer's disease.
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"If you observe donkeys in the wild, they aren't sedentary creatures," wrote Western Pack Burro Ass-ociation member Sheri L. Thompson on the sport's race website.
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"Humans co-evolved with a number of different parasites, but today, in our sedentary city life, we've removed those parasites from the mix," Dr. Trumble said.
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"Sedentary behavior is associated with obesity, insulin resistance and fat deposition in the heart, all of which can lead to injury to heart cells," he says.
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Isn't it strange to design a sedentary device like a chair from an inspiration that asks listeners to do the opposite—to get up and dance?
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"Any exercise is better than being sedentary," said Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, senior author of the study and a diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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"There is previous literature to suggest that lower sedentary time is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness levels, which may underlie some of the observed association," Pandey said.
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A sedentary creature, the female Gaius villosus trapdoor spider builds itself a tunnel in the ground and stays there, seldom wandering too far from its hidey-hole.
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But modernization expanded access to food, transportation, and labor-saving technologies, not to mention the sedentary desk jobs that are now a middle- and upper-class norm.
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Contemporary society, by contrast, is much less active: Industrial populations spend 54 percent of their waking hours being sedentary, compared to just 10 percent among the Tsimane.
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Researchers asked nine previously sedentary young men to do one total minute of high-intensity cycling on a stationary bike three times a week for 230 weeks.
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At issue was whether the snow crab was a sedentary species living on the seabed or moves around like fish, and who gets to control the stocks.
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Flying is a considerably more sedentary activity, but as George Hobica explains on his Airfarewatchdog blog, altitude can also interfere with sleep and cause exhaustion while flying.
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"This study examined a healthy active group of women where we might have not expected to see any deleterious effects from sedentary behavior," Alter said by email.
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Since sloths are covered in dense coats, love to hang upside down and live a sedentary lifestyle, it can be hard to notice when they are expecting.
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The veteran endurance swimmer hopes this initiative will cause a revolution in the United States, which has become one of the most sedentary countries on the planet.
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On Earth, these large, predatory reptiles are solitary creatures, normally sedentary but capable of swimming quickly and even galloping over land for short bursts to catch prey.
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"Athletic people may prefer operative treatment to enhance and expedite their outcomes, whereas a sedentary person with limited functional outcome expectations may prefer nonoperative treatment," Ochen said.
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As most adults know, exercise is an important part of being alive and healthy — and even my lazy ass can recognize that my sedentary lifestyle isn't ideal.
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Try to exercise moderately five days a week, too: One meta-analysis found that frequent exercisers are 27% less likely to suffer strokes than sedentary people are.
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One limitation of the study, however, is that the accelerometers couldn't distinguish between sedentary time from sitting versus inactive periods when people were standing, the authors note.
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Whenever I'd ask coworkers in the break room if their legs were killing them, they usually said no, because they were more accustomed to non-sedentary jobs.
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"People who exercise generally go in for more checkups" than sedentary people, he said, resulting in more screenings for conditions such as so-called indolent prostate cancers.
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While this was the first study of sedentary patterns and diabetes exclusively in older adults, our results were remarkably similar to recent findings in a younger cohort.
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Both exercise groups were calmer, less anxious and happier than a sedentary group, so if you really hate the cold, indoor exercise is definitely better than none.
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"To me, it seemed a little gimmicky, and maybe it wasn't the right intensity," but anything that gets otherwise sedentary people on their feet is a win.
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Tech Tip Q. I am an 84-year-old sedentary person and I need some kind of alarm program that reminds me to get up every hour.
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" Even the liberal left at the Guardian have turned their backs on the British youth, labelling them as sedentary dullards who like to "chill in and relax.
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The researchers used that data to analyze and simulate the mortality benefits that could be incurred if sedentary time in the data was replaced with physical activity.
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"We have this time at school where we have put out an agenda of sedentary behavior," he said, citing the emphasis on sitting down, with rare breaks.
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Phys Ed Even when people know that exercise is desirable and plan to work out, electrical signals within their brains may be nudging them toward being sedentary.
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The public perception of type II diabetes is that it's a disease of excess—the result of too much sugar in our diets and a sedentary lifestyle.
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The condition can also indirectly lead to diabetes by contributing to sedentary behavior, heavy drinking, smoking or other negative health behaviors that are risk factors for diabetes.
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Finally, the researchers had their volunteers repeat the entire four-days-in-a-chair portion of the experiment, asking them once more to be almost completely sedentary.
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The devastating effects of wiping out the food culture of the Lakota Sioux nation and forcing them into sedentary lifestyles are still evident in Pine Ridge today.
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Amporn Bejapolpitak, the department's deputy director general, also suggested that monks add more physical activity — like cleaning their temples — to their sedentary lives of prayer and meditation.
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It is a low-impact activity suitable for people of all ages and most states of health, including those who have long been sedentary or "hate" exercise.
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In some past studies, adults who frequently walked or completed other physical activities were less prone to becoming obese during middle age than people who were sedentary.
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The study is the first to use sophisticated computer simulations to arrive at a literal and sobering societal price tag for allowing our children to be sedentary.
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That particular environment may have resulted in the ancient rodents evolving a smaller brain — easier to maintain but just big enough to help avoid such sedentary predators.
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The amount of time men spent in sedentary pursuits like working at a computer or watching television also didn't appear to impact any parameters of semen quality.
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"If your job is mostly sedentary, take every opportunity to get out of the chair or vehicle; stand, walk or climb stairs whenever you can," Khoo advised.
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In various recent studies, active older people's muscles, immune systems, blood cells and even skin appeared biologically younger, at a molecular level, than those of sedentary people.
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Goldberg said the study conclusions follow other known risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including too much fat around the midsection, a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits.
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Certainly, as rates of obesity and diabetes rise in children and sedentary lifestyles become more commonplace, poor cardiovascular health is increasingly becoming a problem of the young.
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They wanted to avoid comparisons to the least active men, who were likely also the sickest overall, because their sedentary lifestyles were potentially due to other reasons.
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And he challenged Gorman to do push-ups or go running with him after suggesting that the farmer led a "sedentary" lifestyle in contrast to Biden himself.
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A similar study among 20 overweight, sedentary women found no meaningful change in weight after 10 weeks of consuming a glass of wine five times a week.
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"Most aging is just the dry rot we program into our cells by sedentary living, junk food and stress," Dr. Lodge wrote in Parade magazine in 2006.
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"Increasing physical activity, avoiding prolonged sitting time, workplace interventions such as sit-stand work stations and activity-permissive desks may be useful to lower sedentary time," he added.
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But the study is intended to clarify what we need to do to short-circuit the dangerous effects of sedentary behavior, which include weight gain and cardiovascular problems.
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"Pokemon Go" was remembered for encouraging players to step outside of their home and walk about, instead of the sedentary approach seen in a lot of games consoles.
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"Regular moderate-intensity aerobic exercise reduces unhealthy fat accumulation and improves cardiovascular fitness, metabolic health and testosterone production in men - especially overweight or previously sedentary men," Khoo said.
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Even though some previous research has linked excessive sedentary time to a higher risk of premature death, the current study didn't find an association between these two things.
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We created our sedentary lifestyles with technology: cars, robots, computers, and appliances all made our lives easier, and TV meant our leisure hours were often spent sitting down.
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Drinking two glasses of wine, five nights a week for ten weeks, had no effect on body weight or fat percentage in a group of sedentary, overweight women.
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A recently published study of the courtship habits of European glow worms revealed that the bright halos surrounding streetlamps discourage flying males from seeking out their sedentary females.
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The shift from hunter-gathering to sedentary life produced the first villages, symbolised here by a monumental, 8,500-year-old plasterwork statue with two heads, lent by Jordan.
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Sedentary in the hospital, she left in July 53 weighing 120 pounds, almost as much as she weighed when she came in, despite losing 30 pounds in limbs.
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The participants ranked their exercise habits from 1 ("regular hard physical training and competitive sports several times per week") to 4 ("reading, watching television, or other sedentary behaviors").
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For the first time, a scientific study has identified sedentary behavior as a potential risk factor to explain the sharp rise in colorectal cancer among those under 24.15.
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In fact, the length of telomeres showed that adults with high levels of weekly activity had almost 9 years less biologic aging compared to those who were sedentary.
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I mean, it's not OK. "The rise of indoor living has paralleled the rise of sedentary living, which has also paralleled the rise in chronic illness," Razani said.
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" Why it happened: "Even critics of processed food acknowledge that there are multiple factors in the rise of obesity, including genetics, urbanization, growing incomes and more sedentary lives.
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When previously sedentary people started exercising in middle age, they were 35 percent less likely to die of all causes during the study than if they remained inactive.
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Novo Nordisk has built a booming business over the last two decades by focusing on diabetes, which is a growing problem worldwide, driven by obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
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Even though standing desks have become increasingly popular as a possible fix to the problems caused by sedentary time, it's not clear if they help people live longer.
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As a result, the B.D.N.F. genes of the sedentary animals were relatively muted, pumping out little B.D.N.F. But among the runners, the molecular blockade was much less effective.
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People who are physically active are much less likely than sedentary people to develop heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, depression, disabilities in old age, or to die prematurely.
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Hamar and Borana people, and other pastoral tribes who live in arid and lowland parts of Ethiopia, have long felt government pressure to conform to a sedentary lifestyle.
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Many people have pointed to the rise of smartphones and the erosion of meaningful social connection, growing levels of sleep-deprivation, and an overall increase in sedentary lifestyles.
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A Chinese company is in the spotlight for trying to relieve its sedentary employees of their desks — by making it mandatory that they clock 10,000 steps a day.
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In fact, research shows that "fit individuals" -- defined as those who partake in regular physical activity -- have a lower incidence of infection compared to inactive and sedentary individuals.
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For a few glorious minutes, Serena draws my mind away from long, sedentary hours behind my computer and brings me into my body, even though I've barely moved.
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They are also getting much less exercise, as millions of people abandon a more active farming life to crowd into cities, where they tend to be more sedentary.
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On the flip side, people who had been active and in shape as teenagers or young adults but sedentary in middle age seemed to lose any longevity benefits.
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Multiple studies with mice and rats have found that when the animals run on wheels or treadmills, they develop more new brain cells than if they remain sedentary.
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Child's Play Is Good for All of Us If all sedentary children started exercising every day, the United States could save $120 billion a year, a study found.
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Presumably as a result, the one-time runners froze less often than the sedentary animals when placed in cages that were not the same as the original one.
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This study was one of the first to persuasively show that being physically active could lower someone's risk for heart disease, while being sedentary had the opposite effect.
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I learned this the hard way when I tried to rattle off some pull-ups after years of sedentary living, and quickly tore a muscle in my shoulder.
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But we'd do well to adapt the Tsimane example and modify our modern high-fat, highly processed, low-fiber and high-sugar diet and our extremely sedentary lifestyle.
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In observational studies, physically active people proved to be much less likely to develop depression or anxiety than sedentary people, no matter what types of activities they chose.
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According to the Australian arm, Get Australia Standing, these campaigns aim to raise awareness and educate the community about: … the dangers of sedentary working and prolonged sitting time.
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When it comes to buying a gift for your sedentary friend, the trick is to find the hygge-iest of presents: robes, pajamas, bath soaks, candles, the works.
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Over several decades, the study found that regular moderate exercisers were half as likely to die when they had a heart attack, compared to people who were sedentary.
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But there's still been debate on how much exercise is really needed to cancel out the effects of sedentary behavior, considered one of the best predictors of poor health.
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For one fascinating study, published in the journal Obesity Research in 1994, researchers subjected seven pairs of sedentary young identical twins to a 93-day period of intense exercise.
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In other words, those needing the motivation to get up and go or who need to break away from a sedentary lifestyle are the target consumer for this gadget.
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Over the course of decades, Framingham has provided clues to most major cardiovascular risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, and a sedentary lifestyle, among others.
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For one fascinating study, published in the journal Obesity Research in 270, researchers subjected seven pairs of young, sedentary identical twins to a 21950-day period of intense exercise.
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They classified people into three types: the sedentary folks, the moderately active (who exercised two or three times per week), and the super active (who exercised about every day).
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Moderately active people burned more energy than people who were sedentary (about 200 calories more each day), but above that, the energy used up seemed to hit a wall.
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In a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers also found that trans people were more likely to be current smokers, sedentary, and uninsured.
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"This process is critical for breast cancer survivors who may be obese but also suffering from treatment side effects such as fatigue, depression, and sedentary behavior," Dieli-Conwright added.
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Also, the study authors said sedentary behavior such as watching TV was more commonly seen in earlier-onset colorectal cancer cases, but outside experts cautioned that this was improbable.
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For most people, the window for rescuing the heart is late middle age, from 55 to about 65 years, when the harmful effects of sedentary behavior can be reversed.
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According to one study of health impact of sedentary behavior, in 1970, only 20 percent of Americans had jobs that required little physical activity (and lots of sitting around).
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The Alta does have move reminders, something that the new $200 Fitbit Blaze lacks, which means it will nudge you to move when you've been sedentary for too long.
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Another study found that most mice and rats in labs were couch potatoes; sedentary and overfed, and likely to respond differently to drugs or dietary changes than healthy rodents.
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The rest compared water exercisers to similar but sedentary people, or compared individuals to themselves before starting an exercise regimen and after eight weeks or more of water exercise.
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For instance, in a 2015 study of 153,098 healthy runners and 3,950 healthy, albeit sedentary, people, scientists found that the light and moderate runners were less likely to die.
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A study she published in 2014 shows that women who worked out after a stillbirth—most walked or jogged—had fewer symptoms of depression than those who stayed sedentary.
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The study also found that replacing 30 minutes of sedentary time with 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise was associated with a 35% lower risk of early death.
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The leisure activities that children and adolescents are engaging in now tend to be more sedentary and screen-based rather than being outdoor exercise, sport or play, she added.
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Thus, if you are a sedentary aging adult who should weigh 150 pounds, you may need to eat as much as 81 grams (0.54 x 150) of protein daily.
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It finds that even when people know that exercise is desirable and plan to work out, certain electrical signals within their brains may be nudging them toward being sedentary.
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And the volunteers in this study were almost uniformly quicker to move toward the active images than the sedentary ones and slower to avoid those same active stick figures.
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Children who run, hop and play develop thicker, stronger bones than those who remain sedentary, as do teenagers and young adults who participate in sports involving sprinting and leaping.
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In general, the cardiac arteries of both the sedentary people and the casual exercisers, who worked out two or three times a week, were stiffer than in younger people.
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Teachers frequently lament how students struggle to pay attention in class, but the classroom environment, despite the best decorating efforts, is often dull and boring, and students are sedentary.
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Each additional hour of sedentary time at ages 12 and 14 was associated with an 8% to 11% higher risk of depression symptoms by age 18, the study found.
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Each additional hour of sedentary time at ages 12 and 14 was associated with an 8% to 11% higher risk of depression symptoms by age 18, the study found.
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To find out, they first recruited 10 overweight and sedentary but otherwise healthy young men, whose lifestyles are, for better and worse, representative of those of most of us.
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After some cross-talk, Biden told the man, "By the way ... I'm not sedentary," before going on to challenge him to a push-up contest and other physical tests.
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In my case, more important than being sedentary was being monitored, since most patients whose membranes prematurely rupture, and who successfully delay delivery, ultimately develop a rapid onset, serious infection.
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The guidelines claim that screen-based and non-screen-based sedentary time are associated with worse health outcomes—like impaired motor, cognitive, and psychosocial development, or increased chances of obesity.
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In other words, having zero coronary calcium is not a license to ignore well-established cardiac risk factors like elevated cholesterol and blood pressure, smoking, overweight and a sedentary lifestyle.
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"I say to very senior members who, from a sedentary position, are chuntering really very inanely: Do try to grow up!" he declaimed during one typically rowdy debate on Brexit.
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"But I think there has been a lot of interest in the sedentary screen time recommendations in particular," says Juana Willumsen, a WHO advisor on childhood obesity and physical activity.
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In the study, participants did a task in which they steered an avatar towards pictures of physical activity—and away from pictures of sedentary behavior—and then did the opposite.
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Sedentary lifestyles are associated with various health problems such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, colon cancer and premature death as well as other conditions such as depression, osteoporosis and obesity.
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Exhibit curator Galit Bennett told the Associated Press that the man was afflicted with osteoporosis and receding gums as well, signs that he lived a sedentary lifestyle filled with carbohydrates.
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Metabolic syndrome, which also includes also conditions like high cholesterol and excessive fat around the midsection, is exacerbated by overall obesity and a sedentary lifestyle as well as by chemotherapy.
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Each EverWalker, from 5k up to the whole 7-day trek to virtual participants, will be part of the revolution to evolve us from a sedentary to a moving culture.
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After two weeks, the researchers moved the clown fish into tanks pumping out oxygen every few minutes and measured how much oxygen the fish consumed during their most sedentary times.
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For men, each additional 10 minutes of sedentary time was associated with 83 percent higher levels of interleukin 6 (IL-6), a protein in the blood that can indicate inflammation.
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In one small study, sedentary middle-aged men assigned to participate in a vigorous exercise program for nine months reported more frequent sexual activity, improved sexual function and greater satisfaction.
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With this extra sleep, teens spent an average of 52 fewer minutes of the day being sedentary than they did when they were asked to follow their usual sleep schedules.
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But based on the fact that about 60% of people in the world are sedentary -- or 63% of the women in the current study -- many people have room to improve.
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After 8 months of tracking 119 overweight and previously sedentary volunteers while they performed resistance training, aerobic exercise, or a combination of the two, the clear winner was ... aerobic exercise.
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Along with obesity, too little exercise and too much sedentary time—dangerous yet common side effects of modern, high-tech lifestyles—are among the possible suspects, one recent study suggests.
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Yet, we've allowed our society to morph into such a sedentary state of normalcy that for the average person, being physically active on a daily basis takes seemingly gargantuan effort.
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"Older adults, in particular, can accumulate lots of sitting throughout the day, with upwards of two-thirds of their day devoted to sedentary behaviors," he told Reuters Health by email.
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Tana's story is narrated and annotated by the bare-chested Man (Jack Ellis), also known as the Wolf, who occasionally takes on the role of Monty's sedentary mama, Dumptruck Lorna.
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The sedentary people have the luck of not having to move their homeland, and they aren't able to understand the reasons that caused the migrant people to leave their countries.
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One of his medications, combined with a sedentary lifestyle, had caused his weight to balloon to more than 215 pounds; the train experience left him determined to reclaim his health.
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People who exercise have different proteins moving through their bloodstreams than people who do not, according to an interesting new study of the inner landscapes of sedentary and active people.
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It was immediately clear that three days of chronic stress had reduced the effectiveness of the synapses in the stressed-out, sedentary animals, compared to those from the control mice.
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Dr. Liu-Ambrose and her colleagues hope in the future to study whether and how rapidly the brains and bodies of exercisers lose any gains if they become sedentary again.
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The idea is that by convincing your otherwise-sedentary and possibly drunk family members to do inchworms with you across the lawn, you might inspire some non-exercisers to exercise.
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There are many factors that contribute to weight loss, but Mr. Long's before and after pictures have generated discussions about health in forums that are usually dedicated to sedentary entertainment.
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By embracing esports, schools can capitalize upon its organic growth and draw students away from uninteractive, sedentary avenues of entertainment towards an activity that can instill common values and principles.
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But when you travel—especially when you travel alone—you have to adapt to a whole new routine because that old solitary, sedentary person you were just won't cut it.
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He was unsatisfied with the somber, sedentary folk songs he'd been making — "sad bastard music," he called it — and wanted to spring free his sense of humor, absurdity and playfulness.
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You see, the transition from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to sedentary one was a stepwise process, not a sudden transformation of the whole of Europe into an industrialized food economy.
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But for now and especially as we plan New Year's resolutions, "we should consider that reducing sedentary behavior is an important part of a healthy lifestyle," Dr. de Lemos says.
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Scientists at the University of Bath in England and Westmont College in California suspected that these methods wound up inflating the spread in energy expenditure between being sedentary and upright.
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Other research has long found that a sedentary lifestyle can increase the risk of a variety of chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease, obesity, and certain cancers, especially the older you get.
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But we'll need more studies in addition to this review before implementing a guideline, like limiting sedentary time to less than 10 hours per day, Kim told Reuters Health by email.
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"Chronic stress, sleep deprivation, eating habits, sedentary lifestyle, and the fast pace of modern life may be contributing to an increasing prevalence of depression among young people generally," the authors wrote.
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It's true that additional benefits can be gained from more (or more intense) exercise, but Segar says this is a good starting point for many Americans who currently lead sedentary lives.
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With a dearth of passengers and an abundance of early-morning parking on Lexington Avenue, many drivers relish the chance to punctuate their sedentary stretches with wind sprints and shoulder presses.
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Having an office job is bomb on days when you're tired and just want to chill, but sedentary life for 40+ hours a week can put serious strain on your body.
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"The faster avoidance of sedentary behaviors came at the cost of an increased recruitment of brain resources," author Matthieu Boisgontier, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, tells me.
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It is easy to be annoyed by his style—he sometimes acts like a circus barker and uses unnecessarily rotund language ("chuntering from a sedentary position" is one of his favourites).
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Results from national health surveys in the U.S. suggest that adults spend an average of six to eight hours a day inactive, or sedentary, the committee writes in the journal Circulation.
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"Children with disabilities are less physically active, tend to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle, and are at three to six times greater risk for obesity," Sit told Reuters Health by email.
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Among thousands of nurses, hypertension and lots of lifting, carrying, standing and walking were linked to almost triple the odds of MI, compared with more sedentary labor, the Danish analysis found.
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In 1988, the journal Science published a landmark study suggesting isolation was as strong a risk factor for morbidity and mortality as sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure and smoking or obesity.
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In past neurological studies, when sedentary people began an exercise program, they soon developed augmented blood flow to their brains, even when they were resting and not running or otherwise moving.
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Unlike among the mice, however, the rats that had run displayed excellent long-term memory now, easily locating the escape platform just as rapidly as those rats that had been sedentary.
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Doing retirement this way means you're still free from the 9-to-5 grind but instead of transitioning into a sedentary, quiet life, you remain engaged in your passions and interests.
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The grim message comes from a small study of a group of 332 adults living in the United States, Jamaica and Africa, some of them more sedentary and some more active.
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"If you've been sedentary for years and then you go out and try to run five miles, you're not going to feel very good until you get in shape," he said.
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Researchers examined data from 22019 previously published studies that used accelerometers that track movement to measure the exact amount of active and sedentary time spent by more than 36,000 older adults.
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It cannot tell us whether different proteins would be found in sedentary people who start to exercise, or if any or all such proteins would be different after an acute workout.
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For example, in a yearlong study in Hong Kong of 132 women past menopause, those practicing tai chi experienced significantly less bone loss and fewer fractures than those who remained sedentary.
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One effect of devoting so much space to intensely realized female interiority is to render the women vividly dynamic and mobile—restless, yearning, ambitious—even when reactionary or just maternally sedentary.
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Selling College Sports to a Sedentary Nation The California-educated sports executive who made Liga Mahasiswa into his nation's largest college league has goals that go beyond the field of play.
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Many safari operators will take children as young as 8, though specialists suggest waiting until they're ready to sit still for long drives that can be very sedentary, often for safety.
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American health is further assailed by long commutes, sedentary jobs, yo-yo dieting, and the charming toucans and tigers that beckon to children along the breakfast aisle of the grocery store.
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Among those who had a heart attack, the majority, 54 percent, were in the light exercise category - and they were 32 percent more likely to survive than people who were sedentary.
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Competition between farmers and herders over access to land and water has heightened ethnic and religious tensions and pitted mostly Muslim migratory herders and mostly Christian sedentary farmers against each other.
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Her target audience: the sedentary souls perennially slouched over their computers, and fitness enthusiasts who view pre- and post-workout stretching as time better spent in transit or in the shower.
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In that experiment, which ran from 1998 to 2003, hundreds of sedentary, overweight volunteers between the ages of 40 and 60 had remained inactive as a control group or begun exercising.
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It suggests that sedentary people who replace some of their sitting time with even light physical activity are less likely to die early than people who remain in their chairs all day.
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Whether you're five feet on the dot or towering over six feet tall, you can sit, stand, or cycle while working or doing any other activities that were otherwise only possible sedentary.
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The goal, as Herman Miller tells it, is twofold: First, to help rid employees of their sedentary habits; and second, to give companies data on how their employees interact with the furniture.
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"Sedentary occupation workers should break up prolonged sitting time at work as much as they can in order to reduce the risk for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases," Caldas Costa said by email.
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The American Heart Association notes on its website that sedentary jobs have increased 83 percent since 1950 with physically active jobs now making up less than 20 percent of the U.S. workforce.
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Airlines and cruise ship operators have yet to report drops in bookings because of Zika, and analysts have downplayed the impact that newly sedentary parents-to-be could have on their revenue.
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For each additional 30 minutes of sedentary time on a typical day, men were 17 percent more likely to die during the study, researchers report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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There is evidence to suggest that children who play video games are more sedentary and eat more high-calorie foods, and therefore end up with a higher risk of obesity and diabetes.
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It has a dual-chip architecture, with one chip tailored for low-power tasks when the user is sedentary and a more powerful chip responsible for keeping up with more dynamic tasks.
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In addition to sedentary lifestyle, genetics, a family history of colon cancer, a diet low in fiber or heavy in red meat, and heavy smoking or alcohol use can increase one's risk.
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Last year we learned from a scientific review of 47 studies that this sedentary behavior increases your chances of getting a disease or condition that will kill you even if you exercise.
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Reducing sedentary time among school-age children is important because inactivity is linked to a wide range of health problems including obesity and diabetes, Minges and colleagues note in the journal Pediatrics.
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The researchers found that women who were sedentary, meaning they exercised fewer than three times a week, were 28% more likely to report having severe menopause symptoms than those who exercised more.
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Morris later confirmed a similar correlation in postal workers, with sedentary counter clerks showing a much higher incidence of cardiovascular disease than postmen, who did their rounds on foot or by bike.
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The runners' brains contained about twice as many new cells as did the brains of the sedentary animals, with the animals that ran the greatest distance having the greatest increase in neurogenesis.
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Notwithstanding their more sedentary nature, gaming programs shared enough commonalities with traditional sports that administrators began treating them like other athletic teams, with coaches, managers, uniforms, round-robin competitions and even cheerleaders.
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In alternating portions of the test, the volunteers were told to move their avatars as rapidly as possible toward the active images and away from the sedentary ones, and then vice versa.
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At the same time, other scientists delved into the riders' immune systems, drawing blood from them, as well as from a group of sedentary older people and another of healthy young adults.
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In a 2014 study, Gibala and his fellow researchers got a group of overweight and obese sedentary adults to do three workouts per week, for a total of 30 minutes of exercise.
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These results suggest that being sedentary for long periods of time may create conditions inside our bodies "that make us resistant to the usual metabolic improvements after acute exercise," Dr. Coyle says.
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Instead, the muscles of the older exercisers resembled those of the young people, with as many capillaries and enzymes as theirs, and far more than in the muscles of the sedentary elderly.
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Ulf Ekelund of the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences located in Oslo, Norway, researchers analyzed studies that assessed how physical activity and sedentary time were linked with risk of an early death.
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They wound up with participants who either were or were not obese and, separately, were sedentary or active, completing aerobic exercise, weight training, or both types of exercise on a regular basis.
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"Medium was a group of writers loping around at a somewhat sedentary pace, and you could get $50 for a bleeding-heart essay and forge relationships with writers and editors," she says.
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Asia accounts for more than 60 percent of global diabetes cases, with increasing levels of wealth, unhealthy diets and more sedentary lifestyles sparking "diabetes epidemics" in the region, according to BMI Research.
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The tables that doctors and other experts currently use to determine "normal" fitness have been constructed with data gathered from typical older people today, many of whom have been sedentary for years.
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One of the other big themes of exercise science in the 2010s is that bodies in motion seem to develop interior ecosystems that differ, in fundamental ways, from those of the sedentary.
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While they're fine to use when you're just chilling at your desk or doing anything sedentary, they tend to fall out when, say, you're working up a sweat or mowing the lawn.
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" Biden's response seemed to be to challenge the questioner to a push-up contest or an IQ test, as well as accuse the man of watching too much television and being "sedentary.
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Exercise that doesn't really feel like exercise seems like a pretty major breakthrough, especially if the goal is to get more "sedentary individuals" off the couch and into a more active lifestyle.
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Asia accounts for more than 60 percent of global diabetes cases, with increasing levels of wealth, unhealthy diets, and more sedentary lifestyles sparking "diabetes epidemics" in the region, according to BMI Research.
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At this point, we should not be surprised to hear that people who exercise and have high aerobic endurance tend to live longer than those who are sedentary and out of shape.
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The effort to learn more about how these creatures last in the Australian bushland (low metabolism and a"sedentary nature" appear to be key) was first started by Barbara York Main in 1974.
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"The device that has been used in the study [did not allow the researchers] to estimate posture (sitting vs standing vs lying), therefore, estimated sedentary time may overestimate sitting time," Zipunnikov told Gizmodo.
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Compared to sitting for less than three of one's waking hours each day, more than 10 hours of sedentary time was tied to an 133 percent increase in risk for developing heart disease.
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Even those who increased their activity slightly (the "insufficiently active" group) had lower blood pressure than workers who remained sedentary off the job, researchers reported in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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While physical activity has long been linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, many adults spend much of their day in sedentary jobs and compound this lack of movement with inactive commutes.
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Quitting smoking, eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy weight, exercising and reducing the amount of time you are sedentary, getting enough sleep and managing stress all reduce heart risk, she said.
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It recommends children under the age of 2 have no "sedentary screen time," including video games or TV exposure, and those ages 2 to 4 have no more than one hour each day.
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Because the people in the study wore activity trackers throughout the day, the data also provide useful insights into when people in different age groups were most likely to be active and sedentary.
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For instance, it says that any sedentary time, not just watching screens, should be limited to no more than one hour at a time, and should include reading or storytelling by a caregiver.
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These sensors detected how much time people spent sedentary and also how much of participants' active time involved light activities like walking or gardening versus moderate-to-vigorous workouts like cycling or dancing.
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They also sorted participants into four groups based on how long typical bouts of sedentary time lasted before people took movement breaks, ranging from less than 7.7 minutes to at least 12.4 minutes.
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Morris was stunned by how powerfully the data bore out his initial hypothesis: the sedentary drivers were almost twice as likely as the mobile conductors to drop dead of a sudden heart attack.
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Men in the "low" aerobic capacity group had higher average blood pressure, were more likely to smoke and tended to also be more sedentary than participants in the "medium" and "high" capacity groups.
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While time spent being a sedentary TV couch potato might be down, the use of other types of more portable screens doesn't seem to be increasing activity among youth, the expert panel said.
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Close to 70 million people in India — second only to China — have been found to have the disease as a growing number of Indians lead more sedentary lives and eat more processed foods.
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Cut back on the oily foods and snag an air fryer (with a fancy touchscreen), or get a Flexispot standing desk to give your metabolism a boost from your otherwise totally sedentary job.
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Besides, as a UT Southwestern Medical Center study indicates, exercise may offset the dangers of sitting: One hour of activity can make up for six-to-seven hours of being sedentary, researchers found.
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No one is saying you should stand idly for an entire work day, but switching every 30-ish minutes can alleviate pain, stiffness, and sometimes even heart problems that come with sedentary lifestyles.
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An increase in walking and cycling instead of a reliance on fuel-powered vehicles, for example, would help to counter diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other chronic ailments linked to a sedentary lifestyle.
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The hearts of the childhood runners, though, teemed with about 20 million additional cardiomyocytes — the type of heart cell that contracts — compared with the hearts of the sedentary rats of the same age.
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The study, in Pediatrics, found that at age 11, the children were spending an average of almost two more hours a day in sedentary behavior — essentially, sitting still — than they were at 6.
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The sedentary pachyderm is rumored to live in Manzhouli, a city in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, some distance from the gray industrial city where the film's characters struggle and suffer.
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Many past studies have shown that in laboratory rodents, exercise doubles or even triples the number of new cells produced in adult animals' brains compared to the brains of animals that are sedentary.
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Behaviorally, the runners, stressed or not, also learned the location of the treats in the maze more quickly than the sedentary animals did, and remembered it more rapidly and accurately several weeks later.
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The study, which involved health records for almost 1.7 million men and women, indicates that people who exercise in almost any way are less likely to be obese than those who are sedentary.
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The frisky birds and their more sedentary neighbors here in a barn on the Delmarva Peninsula are part of an experiment that could help change the way Americans eat, and think about, poultry.
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Traditional seesaws have other supporters, including occupational and physical therapists, who have noted with concern the increasing number of children who have problems regulating themselves emotionally and physically as childhood becomes more sedentary.
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In animal experiments, mice and rats that run on wheels or treadmills produce far more new neurons in their brains than sedentary animals and perform better on tests of rodent intelligence and memory.
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Obesity and sedentary lifestyles are also associated with colorectal cancer, as are heavy alcohol use and chronic conditions like inflammatory bowel disease and Type 2 diabetes, all of which are on the rise.
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It's possible though that people who were sedentary "might already have had subclinical dementia and that subclinical brain disease could be why they are not moving around as subjects with normal cognition," Gandy said.
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TV-viewing typically occurs in the evenings (at least, for the generation represented in the included studies), usually after dinner, and prolonged postprandial sedentary time may be particularly detrimental for glucose and lipid metabolism.
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It is also plausible that individuals break up their sitting time more frequently during work than when viewing TV, and breaking up sedentary time seems to be beneficial for various cardio-metabolic risk factors.
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Compared to heavier sleepers, people reporting no more than five hours a night were more likely to smoke and be sedentary, and to be black, poor, unmarried, and to lack a high school education.
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Working out has been shown to boost testosterone and libido in men who are sedentary or do very little physical activity; this study just suggests there's diminishing returns in men who are already active.
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Three months after the workouts stopped, women in the exercise group still had more improvements in metabolic syndrome than women who remained sedentary throughout the study, researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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JD.com, an e-commerce firm that is an investor in Weiyang, raises and sells "jogging chickens" that each take 1m steps before the chop, making the meat more succulent than that of sedentary fowl.
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In studying the sedentary habits of Cassiopea, the researchers noticed that the jellies—which pulse all day, as a way to catch and eat zooplankton that drifts by—were pulsating more slowly at night.
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"Sedentary lifestyle is one of the risks factors that is often overlooked," said Yin Cao, lead author of the study and a cancer epidemiologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Before the discovery, it was widely believed the entire area had been uninhabited in that period, during which people were shifting away from hunting for survival to a more sedentary lifestyle that included farming.
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It's more aimed at the vast majority of people, like me, who need to be less sedentary, and to see and meet goals for daily physical activity, standing up more, and doing light exercise.
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They included losing weight, giving up smoking, reducing alcohol consumption, avoiding fatty foods, becoming less sedentary, meditating, and telling a complete stranger that you've been thumbing-in softies at a hundred bucks an hour.
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On averages, bouts of sedentary time were about 11 minutes long, and more than half of the time people spent sitting and standing happened in bouts of less than 30 minutes, the study found.
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Whatever the ultimate causes, the study found 19-year-olds were as sedentary as 60-year-olds, children and teens aren't getting nearly enough exercise, and that physical activity only declines after age 35.
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"Physical activity and sedentary behavior are best considered as distinct behaviors," said Russell Pate, a professor of exercise science at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
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Many studies have found that people who are physically active, either through exercise or while on the job, tend to be less likely to develop certain types of cancer than people who are sedentary.
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For most cancers, people who reported exercising moderately, even if the time that they spent exercising was slight, had significantly less risk of developing 13 different types of cancer than people who were sedentary.
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And countering a calorie-rich, sedentary environment is now harder than it should be, with the current heavy emphasis on academics, parental reluctance to let children play outside unattended, and intense competition from electronics.
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When people reach retirement, they believe they can make up for decades of unhealthy behaviors like sedentary lifestyles or poor eating habits, because they won't be working as much and will have more time.
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In Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, Scott explores why human beings decided to shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a more sedentary, agrarian lifestyle roughly 12,000 years ago.
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It's more aimed at the vast majority of people, like me, who need to be less sedentary, and to see and meet goals for daily physical activity, standing up more and doing light exercise.
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"In this article, they talk about replacing 30 minutes of total sedentary time with 30 minutes of light-intensity physical activity, and they saw a drop of 17% of lower mortality risk," she said.
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If the goal is to reduce sedentary time significantly (say, by two hours a day), it might be useful to build in more light activity — for example, by reshaping the school environment, he said.
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Noise doesn't kill us like a blow to the head but grinds us down the way a poor diet or sedentary lifestyle does: gradually, imperceptibly, almost abstractly, in a way that doesn't feel urgent.
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Well, whether you are strapping or sedentary, and no matter how much you hydrate, old age is coming for you — and youth, I'm learning as a worn-out thirtysomething, is wasted on the young.
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The narcotized daydreams they conjure manage to recall both the worldly exploration of Martin Denny's chintzy exotica and the cosmic bop of Stereolab's future-lounge experiments, without getting too sedentary in their easy-goingness.
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Guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association recommend that sedentary older adults begin with balance, flexibility and strength training exercises before launching into moderate to vigorous physical activity.
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Similarly, in the British study, while a majority of the participants had clear arteries, those masters athletes whose scans did show plaques tended to have far more of them than the sedentary volunteers did.
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It's possible people with small ACCs just engage in more media multitasking—or it's possible that heavy amounts of media multitasking are the mental-health equivalent of junk food, or too much sedentary time.
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The scientists found that the animals with gut bugs from the runners were better able to resist and heal tissue damage and tamp down inflammation than those whose microbes had come from sedentary mice.
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And that's a problem, because when you're stressed out and sedentary, exercise is one of the best things you can do to manage anxiety and ensure that you stay physically active through all that sitting.
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Based on their analysis, researchers conclude that only very high levels of sedentary time - more than 10 hours per day - are linked to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke or heart disease-related death.
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"Screen time is most often a sedentary or passive behavior, with very few learning opportunities," said lead study author Sheri Madigan of the University of Calgary and the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute in Canada.
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The weekend warriors in the new study undertook mostly high-intensity exercise, said Gary O'Donovan, a research associate in physical activity, sedentary behavior and health at Loughborough University in England, who led the new study.
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" Archaeologist Tobias Richter, who led the excavations, added: "Natufian hunter-gatherers are of particular interest to us because they lived through a transitional period when people became more sedentary and their diet began to change.
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That, and worsening drought, has forced pastoralist families to turn to more sedentary lifestyles to survive – ones that have in many cases given women a bigger role in livestock raising, once the domain of men.
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"So if you were to replace 30 minutes of sedentary time with 30 minutes of light activity -- a casual stroll down the hall -- you would lower your risk of early death by 17%," he said.
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It's a common misconception that people with diabetes are always overweight or sedentary, says Deena Adimoolam, MD, assistant professor of medicine, endocrinology, diabetes, and bone disease, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Obesity in American shows no signs of slowing, and the reasons why it's so widespread can be traced to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle that keeps people inactive, and eating, for more hours of the day.
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Related Video: How a Mom with Multiple Sclerosis Lost Half Her Size What this means, says Levine, is that there is hope for couch potatoes who have been relatively sedentary for most of their lives.
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When people started out inactive but got moving later on, they were 43 percent less likely to die of heart disease and 16 percent less likely to die of cancer than if they remained sedentary.
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In fact, the only area that has witnessed truly exceptional, sustained growth is the market for selling exercise apparel—today dubbed "athleisure," and an essential part of many millennial wardrobes—to a relatively sedentary population.
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Given this doughy foodstuff's enormous role in supporting the first sedentary urban settlements, unlocking its past will provide crucial insights into the snack that founded the modern world, and the bygone peoples who seeded it.
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In April, the World Health Organization released a set of recommendations in which it said that caregivers should limit "sedentary screen time"—or watching videos on phones, tablets, computers, or TV—for children under five.
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A standing desk is a clutch solution for the above, but can also improve posture and get blood flowing during an otherwise sedentary day (or week, or month, or however long this quarantine period lasts).
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To find out, scientists from the University of North Dakota and other institutions decided to invite 2000 overweight, sedentary men and women to a lab for measurements of their resting metabolic rate and body composition.
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It turned out that the runners' brains displayed a number of different connections than did the brains of the sedentary young men, and those connections involved areas of the brain needed for higher-level thought.
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The study's results are in line with previous research that suggested the arts may support longevity by improving mental health, enhancing social capital and reducing loneliness and sedentary behaviors, the authors note in The BMJ.
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While some Mexicans joke about their carbohydrate-heavy "Vitamin T" diet of tacos, tortas and tamales, the nation's waistbands are being stretched by an addiction to cheap and ubiquitous junk food and increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
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For their study, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin asked seven healthy young male volunteers to wear monitors and spend four active days in a row and four sedentary days in a row.
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Likewise, there's a higher chance a sedentary person will experience an acute cardiac event, like a heart attack, during exercise when they're unaccustomed to high-intensity exercise, or they have a pre-existing heart condition.
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"There is some evidence that the plaques" in highly active people "are denser and more stable" than those in sedentary people, she says, making them less likely to break free and cause a heart attack.
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To explore the impact of different types of exercise on heart fat, Christensen and her colleagues recruited 32 adults who were obese and sedentary but did not yet have heart disease, diabetes, or atrial fibrillation.
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Some intriguing recent research has shown that people who exercise regularly tend to have different bugs in their guts than sedentary people and these differences could play a role in the health benefits of exercise.
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The world is changing: People are living longer than ever before, and for the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas, making lifestyles more sedentary and the environment worse.
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He offers many examples in an essay called "Nomad and Sedentary" in his book "The Mirror of Ideas": the fratricide in Genesis involving the sedentary farmer Cain's murder of his nomadic brother Abel, a shepherd; the invention of barbed wire in America in the 1800s, which marked the sedentarization of pioneers and bloodshed over the rightful ownership of land; the conflicts between the nomadic Tuareg and the settled Saharan peoples; and the Nazis' demonization of the Jews, imagined as rootless and thus unrighteous transients.
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The Latvian firm, SIA North Star, argued that the crabs are not sedentary because they scurry around and so should be regulated under regional fisheries accords signed by parties including the European Union, Norway and Russia.
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Non-EU member Norway argues that snow crabs are sedentary like corals or oysters and that as such under the U.N. Law of the Sea they are a resource belonging to the continental shelf of Norway.
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But the Latvian firm, SIA North Star, argues that the crabs are not sedentary because they scurry around and so should be regulated under regional fisheries accords signed by parties including the European Union and Russia.
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While the latter has some limitations like requiring a decent amount of light and a preference for more sedentary subjects, it's really nice having the option to extract max res from the camera sensor on demand.
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It's possible that prolonged sedentary stretches might hasten death by causing what's known as metabolic toxicity, said Dr. David Alter, head of cardiovascular and metabolic research for the University Health Network-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in Canada.
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After all, there are plenty of long issues that can be avoided or lessened by living a more active lifestyle, a motivation that becomes all the more apparently as our lives tend increasingly toward the sedentary.
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If you are sedentary and at risk for heart disease, make sure to check with your doctor before exercising in the cold, and be sure to start exercising regularly indoors before exercising outside during the winter.
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Also, while most of Borno State is populated by the Kanuri people, who are historically sedentary, engaging in farming, fishing, salt-processing and trade, many hundreds of thousands of residents were displaced by Boko Haram raids.
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Bercow has become famous around the world for his bombastic style, with clips of his interventions and catchphrases, such as "chuntering from a sedentary position" regularly going viral online and featuring in late night comedy shows.
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Lore McSpadden: I had been a fairly mediocre athlete in middle school and high school followed by years of being very sedentary, struggling to be present in my body as someone who does experience gender dysphoria.
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It showed that sedentary women who completed three, 20-second bouts of climbing stairs, performed in one session with several minutes of rest between the climbing, increased their fitness by about 12 percent after six weeks.
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Exercise does not prevent heart disease altogether, though, he says, and the hearts of marathon runners, like those of sedentary people, can harbor fatty plaques that may break free and block an artery, causing cardiac arrest.
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But with social distancing becoming the new normal for the time being, Niantic, the developers behind the game, have taken steps to make Pokémon Go a hopefully more sedentary, or at least play-from-home, activity.
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Q. Does "moving in place" while seated (for example, flexing or extending feet) count as activity to counteract being sedentary, or does one have to actually stand up or move around, as is currently being recommended?
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But given the scope -- and that many of these issues overlap in ways with one another -- it's a good reminder: August is rarely as sedentary as the empty halls of the Capitol would make you believe.
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"I think people are looking for ways to integrate more movements into their life considering that we're so sedentary today," says Dr. Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist and the author of Decoding the New Consumer Mind.
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In past studies, masters athletes have been shown to have longer telomeres in their white blood cells than sedentary people of the same chronological years, suggesting that at a cellular level, the athletes are more youthful.
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In this study, many of the effects seen in the animals' hearts immediately after the run were beginning to dissipate an hour later, with protein levels dropping back almost to those seen in the sedentary mice.
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Before this, what are now known as the Indigenous people of the Great Plains seem to have been largely sedentary, becoming increasingly nomadic as they gradually developed an incredibly intricate and intense relationship with these animals.
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"—Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurns) December 5, 2019 When the voter said he had heard it on TV, Biden replied "I know you do, and that&aposs why I&aposm not sedentary, I get up and move.
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So the authorities have turned to aquaculture — with some of the animals raised in sedentary conditions in pens or ponds near the shoreline, while others are raised in the sea in something approximating their natural habitat.
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Svinkin, by his own admission, was severely overweight—a byproduct of working from home and living a sedentary lifestyle; he would be more likely to go to the fridge to get food than go to the store.
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With Move Minutes and Heart Points, the new Google Fit encourages user to live a less sedentary lifestyle, but also to get their hearts rates up, which has been scientifically proven to be good for your health.
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FROM COINAGE: Try This Healthy, Cheap Late-Night Snack The amounts of time spent being sedentary or doing less-intense physical activity (like slow walking) were not associated with changes in any of the brain regions studied.
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But those who exercised, even those in the "low" category who engaged in activities like walking, biking, or gardening for four hours a week or more, were 10% less likely to need antibiotics than completely sedentary people.
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A study from Wheeler and his team published earlier this month, based on the same sample of volunteers, found that light exercise could also reverse the effects of sedentary behavior on the brain, by improving blood flow.
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One study also looked at screen time, often used as a proxy for sedentary behavior, and found that after standing desks were put in classrooms, students spent 71 fewer minutes each day watching television and using computers.
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Playing non-VR video games is already a sedentary activity, and I find myself moving even less in the Rift, since I can't get distracted by my phone or lean over to grab a drink of water.
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The findings appear to show that grip strength may be changing as a result of extensive technology use in modern life, as well as the increase in more sedentary jobs at the expense of physically active ones.
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Rather than promote a sedentary lifestyle, Volk says potential soccer players are being introduced to the sport through the FIFA game — perhaps with a better concept of passing and tactics than in the pre-video game era.
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When sedentary people started exercising three or four times weekly, their risk of cardiac events dropped by 11%, and boosting exercise from none to at least five times a week was associated with a 9% risk reduction.
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In addition to the well-documented effects on children's mental health and self esteem, she said, research has shown very harmful effects on children's eating behavior, and increased risk that they will stay sedentary and gain weight.
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According to the readouts of electrical brain activity, the volunteers had to deploy far more brain resources to move toward physically active images than toward sedentary ones, especially in parts of the brain related to inhibiting actions.
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That slight aping of the hearts of the football players and the sedentary young men was coupled with everyday blood pressures that, while still within the normal range, were higher than those of the runners and farmers.
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The study, published this month in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that the brains of competitive distance runners had different connections in areas known to aid in sophisticated cognition than the brains of healthy but sedentary people.
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