Sitting All Day? Here’s How To Counter The Health Effects.

The Bad News

They say that, for your health, “sitting is the new smoking”. If that’s true, we’re hit with some bad news right up front. Although you can quit smoking, you still have to show up at work, and some people are practically chained to their desks for 8-10+ hours each day.

The Good News

The ill-effects of sitting all day can be erased. And all it takes is 22 minutes of your day. Research published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that about 22 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity could reverse the problems caused by prolonged sitting.

According to the authors …

“This is the beautiful part: we are talking about activities that make you breathe a little bit heavier, like brisk walking, or gardening or walking up a hill.”

Some Deets

In the new analysis, the researchers accounted for factors, including medical conditions, that could’ve affected risk of early death.

About half of the participants spent 10 ½ hours or more sedentary each day.

When the researchers linked the participants’ information with death registries in the different countries, they found that over an average of five years, 805 people, or 17%, had died. Of those who died, 357, or 6%, had spent less than 10 ½ hours a day seated, while 448 averaged 10 ½  hours or more sedentary.

Your Bottom Line

If you sit for more than 12 hours a day, your risk of death increases an amazing 38% (compared to those who only sat for 8 hours). BUT … this was only true for those who got less than 22 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a day.

AND … if you sprinkle in an extra 10 minutes a day, your risk of death went down another 35% for who spent more than 10 ½  hours sedentary each day.

So move and keep moving. Otherwise you’ll stop, and keep stopping.

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