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Can sitting too much harm you like smoking?

9/29/2015

 

Is sitting as bad as smoking?

Tim Cook made this analogy and it struck a nerve. I'll briefly highlight what is bad and then I'll give you tips to alleviate the toll sitting takes on your body.

•The ef­fects of pro­longed sit­ting on blood flow were ex­am­ined in a re­cent small study in­volv­ing 11 young men published in the jour­nal Ex­per­i­men­tal Phys­iol­ogy. Af­ter six hours of sit­ting, the vas­cula­ture func­tion in one of the leg’s main ar­ter­ies was re­duced by more than 50%, but was restored af­ter 10 min­utes of walking, said Jaume Padilla, an as­sistant profes­sor in the de­part­ment of nu­tri­tion and ex­er­cise phys­i­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Mis­souri in Co­lumbia and se­nior au­thor of the study.

•Sit­ting more than an hour low­ers the lev­els of the en­zyme lipopro­tein li­pase, which causes calo­ries to be sent to fat stores rather than to mus­cle, Dr. Hedge said.

What can YOU do to counteract the effects of sitting?

**For every half-hour work­ing in an of­fice, peo­ple should sit for 20 min­utes, stand for eight min­utes and then move around and stretch for two min­utes.

**The British Jour­nal of Sports Med­i­cine ear­lier this year pub­lished guide­lines for sit­ting from an in­ternational panel of experts, in­clud­ing Dr. Hedge. The panel recom­mends a com­bined two to four hours of stand­ing and light ac­tiv­ity spread through­out the work­day. And re­search from NASA has found that stand­ing up for two min­utes 16 times a day while at work is an ef­fec­tive strat­egy for main­taining bone and mus­cle den­sity.

**Stand­ more often, it burns one-half to one calo­rie more a minute than sit­ting. In four hours, that rep­re­sents as many as 240 ad­di­tional calo­ries burned.

The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-price-we-pay-for-sitting-too-much-1443462015

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FitCampNYC offers you some salient tips to counteract too much sitting. And no, exercise alone does not to the trick. You need to break up the sitting throughout the day.

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