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Moving Every Half Hour Could Help Limit Effects of Sedentary Lifestyle, Says Study (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Moving your body at least every half an hour could help to limit the harmful effects of desk jobs and other sedentary lifestyles, research has revealed. The study found that both greater overall time spent inactive in a day, and longer periods of inactivity were linked to an increased risk of death. Writing in the journal the Annals of Internal Medicine, Diaz and colleagues from seven U.S. institutions describe how they kitted out nearly 8,000 individuals aged 45 or over from across the U.S. with activity trackers between 2009 and 2013. Each participant wore the fitness tracker for at least four days during a period of one week, with deaths of participants tracked until September 2015. The results reveal that, on average, participants were inactive for 12.3 hours of a 16 hour waking day, with each period of inactivity lasting an average of 11.4 minutes. After taking into account a host of factors including age, sex, education, smoking and high blood pressure, the team found that both the overall length of daily inactivity and the length of each bout of sedentary behavior were linked to changes in the risk of death from any cause. The associations held even among participants undertaking moderate to vigorous physical activity.
Those who were inactive for 13.2 hours a day had a risk of death 2.6 times that of those spending less than 11.5 hours a day inactive, while those whose bouts of inactivity lasted on average 12.4 minutes or more had a risk of death almost twice that of those who were inactive for an average of less than 7.7 minutes at a time. The team then looked at the interaction between the two measures of inactivity, finding the risk of death was greater for those who had both high overall levels of inactivity (12.5 hours a day or more) and long average bouts of sedentary behavior (10 minutes or more), than for those who had high levels of just one of the measures.
Those who were inactive for 13.2 hours a day had a risk of death 2.6 times that of those spending less than 11.5 hours a day inactive, while those whose bouts of inactivity lasted on average 12.4 minutes or more had a risk of death almost twice that of those who were inactive for an average of less than 7.7 minutes at a time. The team then looked at the interaction between the two measures of inactivity, finding the risk of death was greater for those who had both high overall levels of inactivity (12.5 hours a day or more) and long average bouts of sedentary behavior (10 minutes or more), than for those who had high levels of just one of the measures.
I keep the dark chocolate covered prunes, cigarettes, and 15 year-old scotch on the other side of the house, so I have to get up once every half-hour.
By the way, if you've never tried dark chocolate covered prunes, you don't know what you're missing.
https://youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I
You are welcome on my lawn.
Not being sedentary can improve limit effects of a sedentary lifestyle.
#Rocketscience.
Being twice as likely to die doesn't provide a lot of meaningful information, especially when the raw percentage chance is low. Based on information linked in the study, only about 4% of the study population died over the time period of the study. The only information is that the study was of adults at least 45 years of age so although that may seem high, I'd really want to know what the age distribution is as that could be within expectations for their participants.
Regardless of that, it suggests that even if you are less active (and therefore twice as likely to die) your odds of death still aren't very high in an absolute sense.
You're all thinking it...
If you can move around for about 30 minutes, every half hour or so, you'll be much less likely to die
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Certainly there should be a way to enhance one's health without constantly interrupting one's train of thought? The solutions suggested by these studies are non-starters.
whoda thunk it
no matter how much exercise each one did.
I kinda read parts of the summery but it doesn't seem like once every 30 minutes isn't enough at all?
More like once every ~5? ..
And for how long? Is it enough to fetch a cup of tea in the room beside or ..
And this is well in line with my going to the restroom to jack off once or twice an hour to "release stress"
Nothing better for a relaxing jack off session than the sweet fragrance of multiple poop essences all dancing together in the air like the elusive light of aurora borealis
lucm, indeed.
13.2 - 8 hours sleep - 3 hours (breackfast, lunch, dinner) - 1 hour (bathroom) = 1.2 hours of inactive remaining
and that hasn't even count the 1 hour meetings or other inactive stuff people do in their 9to5 schedule.
Not being sedentary can limit the effects of being sedentary.
(sigh)
I am reminded of the Tautology club, where the first rule of the tautology club was the first rule of the tautology club.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I used to be able to sit for hours, but not anymore after getting older. I noticed my body no longer wants to idle. It want to move around a lot. Also, my health had been degrading so I need to exercise too.
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Lionel Hutz, "First, some ground rules. Number one: We get bathroom breaks every half hour."
If you haven't moved for the last half hour you're probably dead, or dying. Seriously, did they take into consideration that sick people exercise less?
Regular pipe maintenance is also associated with a decrease in all-cause male mortality.
Way up in the sky /
Puzzling to my tiny eye /
Ablation of my risk to die.
Only now I ponder why /
Lofting spunk lifeboats spry.
Also, be sure to order the self-winding activity tracker rather than the regular coin cell job—unless you're a dab hand with small tools.
....at less less than 12 minute intervals. It takes me 5 minutes just to get back "into" my job after getting up for another coffee. I routinely sit for 55 minutes at a stretch, anything less, and my productivity suffers dramatically.
The medical profession has known for decades that the body wasn't meant to be stationary. Yet bosses have been shoving us into car/bus/plane seats and office chairs for an increasing number of hours over the decades, without complaint from federal departments of health or workplace safety. The paperless office means there is no reason to leave the office chair: No documents to file, forms to deliver, or printer to feed. Sometimes, even workplace 'conversations' are conducted by email; no movement required. Yet another reason people why people are less healthy today.
Can I sue my workplaces for being unhealthy? This is just as bad as asbestos or black lung!
Get a standing desk, so you can focus on your work while allowing your body parts to move around. I've had one for a few years and it was a kind of revelation -- I love computers, but I hate sitting still. While standing, people don't generally stay in a fixed position for very long, so a standing desk forces you to do all kinds of natural movements.
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Move 30' every 30' and get immediate health benefits :)
How do they know that people that sit more are just not as healthy in the first place? What proof is there that a person that sits a lot would live longer if he got up every 30 minutes? My dad is 85 and healthy and and has always spent a lot of time sitting and reading and resting.
Can somebody explain a 2.0 probability of dying?
Being born has the biggest risk of death
No matter what lifestyle you lead, your risk of death is 100%. Yes, that's right, 100%. Why isn't this simple fact a headline story?
Hopefully we won't ban sitting in bars anytime soon.
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It takes me 5 minutes just to get back "into" my job after getting up for another coffee.
That may be specific to your style. I often think best when moving so when solving some complex problem I go and get coffee, or go to the bathroom and think about it while on the way.
The trick is not getting distracted by conversation.
It's a bit more shaded than just "exercise is good". Maybe some people don't have the motivation do do significant exercise, but finding out that just getting up for a quick stretch or walk round the room periodically has significant benefits, they might consider that something they can handle, and be motivated to do it. Just because you've given up on your fat ass and are resigned to an early death doesn't mean everyone else is.
I'm curious why the key number in headline is half an hour, since TFS mentions "10 minutes", "12 minutes", numbers like that.
Does the headline writer think we have 20 minute hours?
Did TFS writer manage to misquote TFA?
Or did whatever standards body controls this sort of thing redefine the hour when I wasn't looking? It would certainly be nice if our 8 hour workday was redefined down to 160 minutes or so. And think of the paychecks if we work the usual amount of time and get paid for 24 (20 minute) hours every day!
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I am self-employed and work from home. I started working at around 4:00am work and work until 7:00pm. For the longest time I had myself deskbound most of the day. It started to catch up with me in the form of aches, pains, and fatigue. I am not getting any younger and knew I was setting myself up for trouble. Solution? I pick up my bass several times a day and play the most demanding bass lines until I sweat. The playing bass not only helps me physically, but clears up my thought process. This has increased my productivity and overall well being. Also, I am considering a standing desk, as long as it is convertible.
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I've been using a standing desk for about 18 months and it's really good to break up sitting sessions.
I stand for about 12 hours a day, but it's not just standing in place. Standing naturally gives you a reason to be active. You can easily stretch your legs and move around. Sometimes after completing a programming task or similar, I'll just shadow box for 30 seconds because "why not".
If anyone is curious, here's how I built my standing desk for about $50 https://nickjanetakis.com/blog....
Exactly. It's a quest to determine how much exercise and when are the bare minimum to keep people healthy, without any more work than is absolutely necessary. Give the people what they want!
When I play a matchmaking game like Mech Warrior Online I do push ups or sit ups between each match for like 2 minutes and it actually does help. It reduced my back problems, helped my energy level, etc.
Being twice as like to die is entirely meaningless without proper context. On its own, that's just as valuable as saying that we're *all* going to die.
I don't really like these studies, because people who don't move at all might have a worse lifestyle in general, maybe they are already overweight. That's the problem with our studies nowadays.
This is the first good news since a few years back a study showed nominally in-shape people (e.g. jogging wise) suffered as much heart disease as couch potatoes if they just sat around at work and home when done exercising.
Now you have to have a standing, if not treadmill desk.
So...very very good news.
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There was another /. from a long while back that said walking every 1.5-2hr for 10-15min showed reduced heart issues over those who exercised more and did proper cardio, but only after work. If there's anything I learned, it's moderation. You don't need a lot of exercise, you just need to get some here and there throughout the day.
is to start a barbell strength training program.
google Starting Strength for more info.
The real guidelines can be found here. The core (for adults):
TL;DR -
If you are completely inactive, change that ASAP. If you can only take 5 steps at a brisk pace, take 5 steps today, then tomorrow try for 6 and keep increasing until you are walking 10 minutes twice each day.
If you are somewhat active, keep track of your time each week and increase it until you reach a minimum of 150 minutes. Then seriously consider increasing it to 300 minutes.
Also, everyone, everyone should lift weights. Do compound lifts (squat, deadlift, bench press, upright press, barbell row, power cleans, etc) using free weights (not machines). If you are an absolute beginner, get a copy of Starting Strength (highly recommended by just about everyone) or google StrongLifts which is possibly a knock-off, and possibly inferior in some trivial way. Go to ExRx right now and bookmark it, you'll refer back to it often, I promise.
Alternative to daily walking (you might need to walk a little once a week to fill in the minutes) - The hacker diet exercise plan (based on 5BX).
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