Just one hour of physical exercise a day - including fast walking or biking - can neutralize the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle, prolonging the lives of millions of office workers.
"We have received additional evidence of the benefits of physical activity, especially for those groups of people who are forced to sit for many hours a day. Unfortunately, only 25% of our participants were doing the exercises for an hour or more, "wrote the author of the new study Ulf Ekelund,.
Dr. Eckelund is a teacher of physical education and health at the Norwegian School of Sports Science (Oslo). The team of Professor Eckelund conducted a survey of major scientific papers, the results of which reported The Lancet.
Norwegian scientists have confirmed that watching TV for 3 or more hours per day is associated with an increased risk of premature death.
Avoid a sad fate can only be through active lifestyles.
Analyzing the data of 16 major scientific projects, which included more than 1 million participants, the researchers divided the people into 4 groups.
The former were engaged in moderate intensity exercises only 5 minutes a day, the second - from 25 to 35 minutes a day, the third - from 50 to 65 minutes, and the most active - over 65 minutes daily.
If participants sat in front of a box on average 3 hours a day, the risk of premature death increased by 12-59%, depending on the lifestyle, the physical form of the person and other factors. It is interesting that for active people prolonged hypodynamia influenced the least: from 65 minutes a day, participants actually protected their bodies from the effects of sitting.
"Less sit, move more," - this truth is echoed by Professor Eckelund. According to the researcher, the nature of your studies is not important - any person is able to allocate a few minutes a day for health, if you really want to.
His transatlantic colleague Dr. David Katz (David Katz) from the American College of Life Sciences Medicine, fully agrees with the findings of the professor.
Any movement is good.
If you can allocate time for warm-up after work or during a break - use it to the maximum, and do not change from one screen to another.
By the way, hypodynamia is not only harmful to health, but also very expensive.
Researchers emphasize that the lack of movement predisposes to long-running and costly diseases of civilization - type II diabetes, coronary heart disease, as well as bowel and breast cancer.
In 2013, only the United States lost $ 28 billion due to these diseases.
"Economic losses as a result of inactivity are mainly in developed countries. Nevertheless, low- and middle-income countries are rapidly moving along the same trajectory, becoming hypodynamic and painful. The problem is that low- and middle-income countries are not adequately equipped and prepared to fight chronic diseases, "experts warn..
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