Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:47 AM HARARE, Zimbabwe - Striking nurses and other health workers have brought Zimbabwe's government hospitals to a near standstill, straining a once vibrant public health system now... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:47 AM CHICAGO - For the first time ever, children as young as six months can now receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC and FDA gave final approval over the weekend , and doses are... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:45 AM Environmental engineers determine the economic cost of reactive nitrogen emissions from agriculture, and their significant risks to populations through air pollution and... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:21 AM The South Orange Rescue Squad is inviting the public to help celebrate 50 years of emergency medical and rescue service to communities and neighborhoods throughout Orange... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:01 AM WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected Bayer's appeal to shut down thousands of lawsuits claiming that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The justices on Tuesday left... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 9:47 AM North Carolina has already ordered 118,000 doses of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 years old and under. Parents and doctors say they're eager to protect the... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 9:27 AM In less than a month, people across the country will be able to dial 988 to seek help during a mental health crisis. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 9:07 AM CHICAGO - Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is back home, nearly two weeks after he was hospitalized for what his doctor described as a "neurological event." Daley was... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 7:39 AM 'Dr. Mario Insurance' is the game where the worse your health insurance is, the harder it is to play. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, June 21, 2022 7:15 AM While you do need an Apple Watch to get the most health data while you sleep, you can still set up and use the Sleep Schedule feature on your iPhone It was on the Apple Watch... |
WebMD Health Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:29 PM How healthy you are and how long you live depend a lot on how much you can afford to pay for health care. |
Mark's Daily Apple Tuesday, June 21, 2022 11:00 AM Most people probably assume that the problem with a sedentary lifestyle is that you aren't moving. (Yes, I see the tautology there.) Every minute, every hour, spent sitting at your desk or lounging on the couch is time you aren't walking, lifting heavy things, or sprinting. That's part of the problem with being sedentary, to be sure, and I'll touch on that in this post. There's more to it than that, though. Sedentary behavior is defined as waking activities that generate less than 1.5 METs—sitting and lying down, basically. Experts recognize that even controlling for how much exercise a person gets, sedentary behavior per se is bad for physical and mental health. In other words, even if you hit the gym and walk the dog regularly, being sedentary is harmful. Sedentary behavior isn't just the absence of movement; it is the presence of something more insidious. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that sedentary behavior is more prevalent now than at any point in human history. Our grandparents' generation was three times more likely to have moderately active jobs, in ye olden days before so many of us sat in front of computers to work (I say as I type away on my laptop). Even though our ancestors probably enjoyed considerably more leisure time than the average adult today, their non-work time didn't resemble modern repose. When hanging out in the shade of a tree or sitting around the campfire swapping tall tales, they adopted rest postures like the once-ubiquitous deep squat. Their bodies weren't cushioned and held in a static position by a comfy sofa or La-Z-Boy. Muscles throughout their bodies were activated, tissues statically stretched. They shifted their posture often for comfort and balance. In short, our ancestors rested, they enjoyed plenty of downtime, but they weren't sedentary in the way we modern humans are. Sedentary behavior is an individual health problem, a public health problem, and an economic problem. The cost of medical care and lost productivity due to overly sedentary modern lives reaches the tens of billions of dollars every year. Today I'm going to outline some of the specific ways being sedentary hurts us and what we can do about it. Being Sedentary Increases Disease and Mortality Risk The data from large, long-term epidemiological studies tell a clear and consistent story: folks who are more sedentary in their day-to-day lives are at greater risk for just about every chronic disease. They also die sooner. It's as simple as that… mostly. Some analyses do suggest that among the most active folks, those who get at least an hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day, the risks of being sedentary are attenuated. I'll return to that provocative finding later. For everyone else, there is a clear relationship between sedentary behavior, chronic disease, and shorter lifespan. For example, a 2012 meta-analysis of studies with almost 800,000 combined participants found that the more sedentary you are, the greater your risk for suffering a cardiovascular event, … Continue reading "Consequences of a Sedentary Lifestyle" The post Consequences of a Sedentary Lifestyle appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple. |
