Sentences with phrase «less sedentary»

Berge and colleagues found that higher family functioning was associated with more healthful dietary intake, less sedentary behavior and greater physical activity in their sample of 2793 Minnesota youth [29].

The researchers found that the long - sitting / low - activity women had cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.

As animal advocates, we are interested in anything that makes our dogs more comfortable and less sedentary while they are awaiting adoption, so it was a welcomed relief to see these results.

They found that children in dog - owning families took part in more physical exercise and were less sedentary.

There are a variety of practices and technical tools that can help writers become less sedentary.

We can have standing meetings, we can walk during the lunch break, and we can look to reduce TV viewing in the evenings by seeking out less sedentary behaviours.

Students in schools that offered Healthy Choices were more likely to watch less television, be less sedentary, and more likely to play fewer video / computer games.

He also suggests a less sedentary day all - around.

1) If you are more or less sedentary, don't go from working out 0 days a week to working out intensely 5 days a week.

ways to practice a less sedentary routine.

Over the years, I've come up with strategies to help me be less sedentary when I'm at my desk:

Accelerometers recorded three percent less sedentary time than control participants, equaling about 25 minutes of time spent engaged in activity rather than in sedentary behavior on any given day.

Those who did more light physical activity or had less sedentary time per day had lower pain scores on the conditioned pain modulation test — indicating better pain inhibition.

Better food choices, a less sedentary lifestyle, never smoking, monogamy perhaps, could give each of us a healthier middle age and old age....

«If this happens then work place computer usage will need to change to be less sedentary.»

They found that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.

But if you're looking for baby steps to get started with a less sedentary lifestyle, this study should give you a jolt of motivation.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the University of Georgia found that previously sedentary adults who started doing 20 minutes of low - to moderate intensity aerobic exercise three times a week for six weeks reported feeling less fatigued and more energized.

He found that «men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity,» according to NPR.

found that kids who slept less than the suggested daily number of hours tended to show «higher values of BMI, body fat, waist and hip circumferences and fat mass index... [they] were more sedentary... and spent more time watching TV.»

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.

Such sedentary behaviors cause us to sit more and exercise less.

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Few interventions have specifically focused on decreasing and interrupting sedentary time and even less is known about the role of mobile phone technology.

Clearly, endless exhortations to eat less and exercise more aren't working in our increasingly wealthy and sedentary society.

Passive robots in the form of sedentary animals may be less flashy than a bird skin stretched over a robotic frame, but they can be just as good at keeping tabs on their environment — and significantly less nasty.

Dr Andersen said the study was important because, although there have been other studies looking at the effects of endurance exercise on various cardiovascular problems such as ischemic heart disease and stroke, there have been only a few, smaller studies of its effect on heart rhythm disturbances, and they have tended to look at people who are less physically active, or compared very sedentary people with those who were very active.

Obese mice gained less weight after exercise or WBV than obese mice in the sedentary group, although they remained heavier than normal mice.

Before the study, all of the men were sedentary, exercising less than an hour a week in the previous six months.

A rising number of studies have noted that senior citizens who stay more physically active have less deterioration in the brain than those who are sedentary [see «Smart Exercise,» by Aimee Cunningham; Scientific American Mind, Vol.

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.

Ortega explains another major finding of this study: southern European adolescents participate less in physical activity and more in sedentary activities than those from northern Europe which, to a large extent, explains their lower level of fitness.

«We don't have information about how much sedentary behavior is bad for health — the best advice at this time is to «sit less and move more,»» she added.

«Its a stimulus for poor dietary behavior, whereas some of the other types of sedentary behavior are less likely to stimulate poor snacking behaviors.»

The main reasons for this, however, can be found not so much in biology as in our modern sedentary lifestyle — as we age, we tend to be less and less physically active and spend more time sitting on a couch or working at a desk.

If you have a very active lifestyle you may benefit from less frequent and / or shorter workouts whereas if you are mainly sedentary, you will probably find you can recover from longer and more frequent workouts.

Doctors now know that healthy living involves not only moving around more, but sitting less — engaging in fewer sedentary behaviors like watching TV or going online, the researchers said.

Physically active people are happier and experience less anxiety than sedentary people.

Other research, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, found that sedentary women who exercised for 30 minutes just three days a week slept up to an hour longer and woke less frequently at night.

When they controlled for factors such as age, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol consumption, the researchers found that people in the low physical - activity group were 10 % less likely to have had an infection than those in the sedentary group.

A person who is sedentary will release far less of this substance into their bloodstream than one who engages in high - intensity exercise.

Generally, overweight people are more sedentary and less insulin sensitive which means low - carb might work better for them.

The more sedentary you are, the less you need.

If you stop exercising, a smaller muscle mass coupled with a more sedentary lifestyle means you will burn less calories every day even though you probably would still consume the same amount of food.

In their study, Japanese researchers noted that pulmonary embolism occurs less frequently in Japan than in Western countries, but that it may be on the rise — and that increasingly sedentary lifestyles may be playing a role.

That said, those percentages were worked out for the average sedentary person, who often eats quite a bit less than someone that exercises regularly (and especially if that person has a lot of muscle).

A larger, more active person may have more and a smaller, more sedentary person may have less.

When people start from being sedentary to going to the gym or playing a sport 5 - 6 times a week because they want to get quick results in less time, there is no doubt that injuries will start to occur.

Instead of eating diet foods and logging Calories, you may have more success substituting fiber and other nutrient - dense foods for less filling foods, substituting exercise for a sedentary life, and substituting bodily awareness for a Calorie log.

I am trying to gain weight and am eating 50g or less net carbs and was wondering if this is ok (I am sedentary btw)?