Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? April 2011 NYT
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about James Levine a researcher at MAY in Roches Minn.
He studies  inactivity as it relates to obesity.
 
monitors every movement... hi tech monitoring with accelerometers and inclinometers.
 
traditional obesity research relies on self-reporting of eating and exercise... very flawed.
 
The people who didn't gain weightr while eating more were unconsc moving around more.
 
sitting in chairs... (quoting Marc Hamilton... an inactivity researcher at Pennington Biomed)
your muscles go as silent as a dead horse;
 
leg muscles lose more than 75% of their ability to remove harmful LDL from blood.
40% reduc in insulin's ability to uptake glucose.
 
sitting is an indep pathology.
excessive sitting is a lethal activity.
 
NEAT = non-exercise activity thermogenesis...
 
Treadmill desks
first graders crawling around on mats with difft vocab words.
 
“Go into cubeland in a tightly controlled corporate environment and you immediately sense that there is a <a class="meta-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Malaise." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/malaise/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">malaise</a> about being tied behind a computer screen seated all day,” he said. “The soul of the nation is sapped, and now it’s time for the soul of the nation to rise.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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