Sentences with phrase «sedentary activities like»

The accelerometers enabled the scientists to obtain data about the length of time they spent on physical activities of different degrees of intensity, or sedentary activities like watching TV.

After sitting in school at a desk, many kids choose sedentary activities like watching television and playing video games.

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And, oddly, even compared to other activities that are sedentary — like driving a car or using a computer — watching TV still appears to be deadlier.

Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.

The researchers suggest that while many smartphone functions may promote sedentary activity, they are hopeful that playing physically - interactive, smartphone based video games like Pokémon GO may help promote walking and reduce sitting in college students.

The term «sedentary activity» might sound like an oxymoron, but being sedentary is an active choice to indulge in activities that barely raise the energy expenditure above basal metabolic rate.»

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.

I mean, I know what sedentary / moderate activity / high activity levels are to me personally, within my own parameters — which incidentally are changing as my body changes on this lifestyle — but I'm interested in what you've got to say about it, as you've got the years of experience on the lifestyle and have obviously met so many like minded / bodied people.

Even activities like pilates, when done with enough resistance and intensity, especially when done by someone coming from a sedentary lifestyle, can build an impressive physique when combined with proper nutrition.

Cell phone use, like traditional sedentary behaviors, may disrupt physical activity and reduce cardiorespiratory fitness.

Some people don't like to work out and prefer sedentary lifestyle over activity.

Like most athletes, gun dogs of all breeds have seasons and off - seasons, and they must not plunge from the sedentary life of the off - season to the full - fledged activity of the hunting season.

Treats can be a great way to praise your pet after doing something they do not like such as clipping nails or to encourage activity and exercise particularly in indoor or sedentary cats.