It's a good try, it turns out, but even daily exercise won't completely erase the physiological damage of a sedentary job. This unpleasant news comes from a new study published in Exercise and Sports Sciences Reviews. As Gretchen Reynolds explains in the New York Times, muscles that go unused for hours
at a time change in subtle ways, and those changes can ratchet up risk for
heart disease, diabetes and other diseases. Reynolds directs our attention to another study, done by researchers at the University of South Carolina and the Pennington Biomedical
Research Center in Baton Rouge, that found that men who spent more than 23 hours a week watching TV and sitting in
their cars had a 64 percent greater
chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a
week or less. Those researchers concluded, sadly, that daily workouts did not counteract the ill effects of sitting.
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this is one of those so called scientific studies – like global warming (and there are many), that should have never made it into print.
so you think it is healthy to sit around and do nothing?only a conservative would be dumb enough to think that.
WOW – what an idiotic reply…..only a liberal would be self-righteous enough to post that.
If this was true, then all people who’s jobs require to be sitting in a chair will, statistically speaking, die younger than those who move around a little bit more.
Muscles need rest to recover and that’s why the best practice while training in a gym is to alternate body parts during the week.