3810 - Danger

Are you sitting down? DON"T! Quick, get up. Move around before you die!

I have been reading a lot of articles recently about sitting for to long causing an early death. Here's another one of those but this time there's a little wiggle room. This one says if you get up every half hour and move around you cut down on the threat of death but don't eliminate it.

From the article...

Make no mistake, the authors of the new research cautioned: “Accumulation of large volumes of sedentary time is a hazardous health behavior regardless of how it is accumulated.” But logging sedentary time in shorter bouts of sitting “is the least harmful pattern of accumulation.”

Study participants who racked up the most time in a chair tended to be older, were more likely to smoke, and were disproportionately African-American. They tended to be teetotalers, to have a higher body-mass index, and were less likely to get much intentional exercise. They were also more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, worrisome cholesterol readings and a history of stroke, atrial fibrillation or coronary heart disease.

For the whole article go HERE.