Sentences with phrase «hours of moderate physical activity»

«Kids should get at least one hour of moderate physical activity daily,» adds Rashad.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that all pregnant women follow a healthy diet, and consider at least half an hour of moderate physical activity per day during pregnancy.

«That's an amount equal to one hour of moderate physical activity, without lifting a finger,» said Dr. David S. Ludwig, lead author of the study published tomorrow (June 27) in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

How can science explain seven minutes of intense physical activity making up for at least an hour of moderate physical activity?

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Youth can achieve substantial health benefits by doing moderate - and vigorous - intensity physical activity for periods of time that add up to 60 minutes (1 hour) or more each day.

Each increase in an increment of 5 - metabolic equivalent hours per week (MET - h / wk), which is equal to about 100 minutes per week of moderate - intensity physical activity or 50 minutes per week of vigorous - intensity activity, was associated with a 9 percent lower risk of T2DM.

Participants were asked to record the average number of days per week and average number of hours per day they performed mild, moderate, or vigorous physical activity for each decade of life.

The study, publishing online January 18 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found elderly women with less than 40 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity per day and who remain sedentary for more than 10 hours per day have shorter telomeres — tiny caps found on the ends of DNA strands, like the plastic tips of shoelaces, that protect chromosomes from deterioration and progressively shorten with age.

Moderate physical activity or exercise for half an hour can decrease acne flaring by reducing stress, anxiety symptoms that are the leading cause of acne flaring after puberty.

Health behaviours included smoking (never, former, current), alcohol intake (none: ≤ 1 unit / weeks, moderate, heavy: ≥ 14 units / week) self - reported physical activity (vigorous, moderate and non / mild) 40 and duration of sleep (5 categories from ≤ 5 hours to ≥ 9 hours / day).

An inactivity timebomb Insufficient physical exercise is widely understood to be a primary cause of obesity, as vast numbers of UK children are failing to clock up the hour of daily moderate to vigorous - intensity activity advised by the World Health Organisation.

For a moderate level, travelers should be prepared for multiple hours of physical activity (e.g. hiking, kayaking, biking) each day.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that women between the ages of 64 to 90 who sat for more than 10 hours a day with less than 40 minutes of daily moderate - to - vigorous physical activity had shorter telomeres.

A continuous variable representing total weekly hours of moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per week was created by summing the weekly hours of moderate and vigorous activity.