Yikes, I'm in trouble now! Did you know, that "Too Much Sitting (is) Linked to Chronic Health Problems". It's not just amount of exercise, but the actual time spent sitting during the day.
A study in Australia included 63,000 men between the ages of 45 to 65. They found that the men who sat for less than four hours per day, were less likely to have chronic health conditions. This was true for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. "The number of chronic diseases reported increased along with sitting time. This was true even after the investigators took the men's physical activity level, age, income, education, weight and height into account."
A researcher reported, "We saw a steady stair-step increase in risk of chronic diseases the more participants sat. The group sitting more than eight hours clearly had the highest risk,"…
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NOTE: While people with jobs like office workers and truck drivers need to be concerned, so to people with COPD. Since many people with COPD have a tendency to sit more than others, it is definitely something to consider. Even if we exercise, we need to think of ways to be more active during the day, which is a very difficult task for many of us.
Read the article, "Too Much Sitting Linked to Chronic Health Problems" at webmd.com/heart-disease/new... More
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