FTA: "...greater total sedentary time ... and longer sedentary bout duration ... were both associated with a higher risk for all-cause mortality."
TL;DR: Sitting slowly kills you, and sitting longer kills you faster.
BTW, AIM is a top-drawer journal. This is not some half-assed study...it's about as rigorous as you'll find. Get moving, folks!
http://annals.org/aim/article/2653704/patterns-sedentary-behavior-mortality-u-s-middle-aged-older-adults
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Yeah, but I break up that sitting with sets of push ups and sit ups.
ReplyDeleteStanding desk for 7 years. All day.
ReplyDeleteI have my lunch schedule set up with an hour break so that I can spend part of that time walking. That said, when death does catch up to me, I will most likely be sitting comfortably.
ReplyDeleteSitting is the new smoking. Though to be fair, those who sit long and move slowly have other underlying condition that drives mortality.
ReplyDeleteLev Osherovich They might have another underlying condition, but they need not. I know a lot of perfectly capable teens and 20-somethings who sit for 10+ hours a day and don't worry about the consequences.
ReplyDeleteLooks like there are some problems with this study
ReplyDeletearstechnica.com - The new study suggesting sitting will kill you is kind of a raging dumpster fire
Lev Osherovich Ah, yes, the armchair critic. I'll take my chances on the peer review at a top medical journal over a tech blog writer's opinion any day. No, peer review is far from perfect, but it's far better than something posted on a website that makes its money off of page views. As someone who has done industry-funded research, I can say that there is often zero influence over the research by the funding corporations. It's not always true, of course, but by and large, there's nothing nefarious going on.
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