Sentences with phrase «increased sedentary»

Studies in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Asia have all found an association between increased sedentary time and the risk of early death.

Furthermore, for every one hour of increased sedentary time, liver fat increased by 0.87 %, while for every daily increase of 1000 steps, liver fat decreased by 0.87 %.

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

With both aging and living with PD associated with increased sedentary behaviors, these results should encourage patients to become more physically active and caregivers, and healthcare providers to facilitate these activities.

Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face - to - face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful activities, increase sedentary behavior by encouraging more screen time, lead to internet addiction, and erode self - esteem through unfavorable social comparison.

This is likely due to the standard American diet, increasing sedentary behaviors, and more time spent indoors in front of artificial lights.

The practical, low - cost solutions to increasing sedentary behaviour, poor fitness and physical literacy and slowed personal development are actions which any school can easily take, once they have committed to changing.

By not allowing kids to play unsupervised outdoors and be in situations where they must assess risk for themselves, parents limit «essential learning and developmental opportunities for children, while also reducing their physical activity and increasing sedentary behaviours.»

Not exact matches

Being too sedentary increases your risk of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, kidney stones and various cancers.

Avoiding being sedentary can reduce stress and increase focus and productivity.

With the coming of the computer age and the development of computer games, Wii, PlayStation and the like, parents are not only dealing with less space for their children to run and play, also with safety issues from human wickedness as well as massively increased traffic on the roads, but they now too have to pull their children away from sedentary entertainment like those listed above and find ways to keep them more active.

In the neurons of sedentary mice only, the cold water spurred an increase in «immediate early genes,» or short - lived genes that are rapidly turned on when a neuron fires.

«A sedentary lifestyle increases the propensity to aging - related disease and premature death,» researchers at King's College London report today in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

High amounts of screen time and other sedentary behavior were also associated with increased prevalence of pain conditions.

Poor physical fitness and sedentary behavior are linked to increased pain conditions in children as young as 6 - 8 years old, according to the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children Study ongoing at the University of Eastern Finland.

Increasing the amount of physical activity at various intensity levels and reducing the amount of sedentary time seem to be an important way of preventing overweight and enhancing cardiovascular fitness in childhood.

Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., and Ellen Glickman, Ph.D., from Kent State's College of Education, Health and Human Services assessed the ability of the popular, physically - interactive, smartphone based video game Pokémon GO to increase walking and decrease sedentary behavior, like sitting.

In recent years, rapid societal transitions that are producing increases in wealth, urbanisation, changing lifestyle and eating habits, more sedentary work practices and aging populations across sub-Saharan African countries have led to increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Hunter - gatherers were replaced in many places by sedentary farmers, and there were large increases in population size that laid the foundation for larger towns and eventually complex societies.

Evidence has linked sedentary time to increased risk of breast, colorectal, ovarian, endometrial, and prostate cancers as well as weight gain, higher BMI, and obesity.

Nonetheless, the authors say: «Overall, simple smartphone prompts appear to be a promising strategy for reducing sedentary behavior and increasing activity, though adequately - powered and well - designed studies will be needed to confirm these preliminary findings.»

«Smartphones may decrease sedentary time, increase activity, study finds: Report calls use of prompts «a promising strategy».»

These drugs have been tested in mice with impressive results: a 44 percent increase in endurance in sedentary animals after four weeks of treatment with AICAR, and a 70 percent increase when GW1516 is combined with exercise.

While WHO formulates its recommendations in terms of moderate - to - vigorous activity, the researchers say there is a growing consensus for the benefits of reducing sedentary behavior and increasing even low - intensity levels of physical activity.

«19 - year - olds as sedentary as 60 - year - olds, study suggests: Teen years represent highest risk for inactivity; increases in activity levels only seen in 20 - something.»

Sedentary lifestyle and not caloric intake may be to blame for increased obesity in the US, according to a new analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Previous research has shown that being sedentary increases the risk of cardiovascular disease but until now its effect on patients with established heart disease was unknown.

The UI study says: «Office workers sit more than 80 percent of the workday, placing them at increased risk for many sedentary - related pathologies.»

«It has been the conventional wisdom that this increase in diabetes is the result of an uptick in obesity due to sedentary lifespans and calorie - dense diets.

The incidence of cancer and other related diseases has increased considerably in Western societies; this is partly due to an increased caloric intake and a more sedentary lifestyle.

These findings reinforce the role of avoiding sedentary behaviour even in the absence of increased MVPA.»

A prospective, but possibly underpowered, cohort study testing a priori for sex interactions states that women tend to consume more sugar, although high glycemic index diets seem to increase abdominal fat, particularly in sedentary women in contrast to sedentary men (123, 124).

The researchers found a strong connection between consumption of n - 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and an increase in sedentary behavior

In order to determine whether the browner fat could affect how the body uses glucose, researchers transplanted the trained mouse fat into high - fat, sedentary mice and discovered that those mice showed increased glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity for at least 12 weeks following transplantation.

The British Journal of Cancer has published a study that examines the association between sedentary behaviour and increased bowel cancer risk in men.

They noted that while most sedentary behavior — like watching television — is known to increase the risk of death, previous studies have found that reading either reduces that risk or has no effect at all.

When you're at risk of developing diabetes, too much TV time or other time spent in sedentary activities increases your risk even more.

«Whether you increase your intake to around 7,000 or 8,000 kilojoules or a little higher, to around 8,700 (considered the average intake needed by most adults), will depend on factors like how sedentary you are, and if you exercise, what the intensity and duration of your fitness regime is,» she adds.

If you're mostly sedentary (and let's face it — with 9 - to - 5 desk jobs being the norm, it's hard to avoid), you'll start to see noticeable results with just a slight increase in your activity level.

Sources: Too Much Sitting: The Population - Health Science of Sedentary Behavior Sedentary behaviors increase risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in men.

With worldwide sedentary lifestyles increasing, and depression rates growing, the study results are especially relevant as they emphasize that a small lifestyle change can deliver considerable mental health benefits.

And, she added that, «because research indicates that Alzheimer's and other dementias develop over several decades, increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior beginning in early adulthood may have a significant public health impact.»

A 2003 study suggested that increased dietary fiber and weight training can slim the waistline if they're coupled with a reduction in trans - fatty acids and sedentary activities such as television viewing.

The results for women didn't show an increased risk for vigorous exercisers: All levels of physical activity appeared to lower the risk of infection compared to sedentary behavior, although adjusted results were only significant for the low - activity group.

However, the findings did suggest a «J - shaped tendency,» the authors wrote, in which low and moderate levels of physical activity were associated with a decrease in antibiotic use (compared to sedentary behavior), but vigorous activity was associated with an increase.

Your need for protein is increased if you're more sedentary.

From athletic and busy to more sedentary you and I have increased protein needs in order to prevent muscle loss.

Sedentary behaviors have also been shown to increase anxiety and high mortality rates.

It was estimated that a sedentary individual who has a very low amount of daily steps but who had been able to modify behaviour over 5 years in order to meet the widely used guideline of 10,000 daily steps would improve insulin sensitivity by 3 times in comparison to a similar individual who increased their steps in order to meet the more recently recommended 3,000 steps for 5 days each week.

Spending time outside not only increases daily activity levels, which in and of itself increases circulation and decreases stagnation and lethargy, but also uplifts mood and motivation, which can decline during the dark and depressing, often sedentary, Winter time.