Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Prolonged sitting health risks exercise news article

 "Now for the good news: ...Earlier this year, yet another study, this time by researchers from the University of Leicester, found that people who exercise regularly really do offset the unhealthy side effects of sitting all day. And the latest meta-analysis published today in The Lancet supports that conclusion.-source gizmodo

Another earlier news report indicated that micro activity(fidgeting) while sitting also does away with the increased health risks.


"As other studies have, the team found that longer time spent sitting was linked to mortality. Among women sat for more than seven hours per day and who didn’t fidget much, their risk of mortality was 43% higher than those who sat for less than five hours. (When the team adjusted for things like smoking and drinking, the mortality risk for sitting for more than seven hours a day was still higher by 30%.)

But what was really interesting was that being more fidgety seemed to counteract this effect: That is, the middle- and high-fidgeting groups didn’t have any greater risk of death even sitting more than seven hours every day."-source forbes 

Some animals can be totally inactive for several months as part of their life cycle, they neither lose muscle mass nor bone mass, iirc, and they likely do not suffer increased mortality from such as they likely have evolved mechanisms to cope with prolonged inactivity.     The thing is all life shares dna and the genetic traits that allow for such can be transfered from one species to another.  Future humans are likely to one day be modified such that prolonged inactivity results in no harm to one's health, even indefinite inactivity.   For now fidgeting and exercise are necessary, but that is only the case due to our genetic weakness.

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