Posted on 05/05/2019 3:33:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Are you sitting down? This might be one you’ll want to read standing up, or even better, walking around a little: Despite all the warnings about prolonged inactivity and “sitting disease” over the past decade, Americans are sitting one hour per day longer than they did nine years ago, according to a new study published in JAMA.
Adults now spend 6.5 hours parked on their behinds each day. The sitting situation is even worse for teens, who now sit for more than 8 full hours a day, according to researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, who analyzed survey data from nearly 52,000 children, adolescents, and adults from 2001 to 2016.
Unsurprisingly, screen time is largely to blame. Sixty-five percent of adults, 59 percent of adolescents, and 62 percent of kids spend at least two hours a day sitting in front of the TV or watching videos on a device each day.
Sedentary computer time skyrocketed among adults from 2003 to 2016, according to the study. Half of all adults now spend an hour or more each day on their computer during their leisure time, up from 29 percent 13 years prior.
These trends are especially troubling in light of research that shows that the more hours you sit each day, the higher your risk of dying early from any cause.
All hope is not lost, however. Though previous research has found that multiple days of being extremely sedentary makes you resistant to the benefits of a bout of exercise, a newly published study on so-called “high sitters” (those sitting more than 6 hours a day) shows that consistent exercise can indeed counteract the ill effects of lots of forced chair time: It’s just a matter of getting regular activity.
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What do they suggest?
(Groucho: They suggest baboons.)
I’ve done intermittent fasting myself, but not for that long.
Every individual is different: it depends on their history of eating, their history of exercise, their body fat % and so on.
I’m not against fasting, I am not saying “fasting doesn’t work”: I am saying each person has to find the level and duration of fasting that works for them (in conjunction with their other goals, such as (say) jogging or weightlifting).
Get off the screens !
Nature nurtures
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