It’s common knowledge that exercise will extend your life. Through exercise, your body will be a robust, energetic and a happy place to be. I’ve found a clinical study that backs up this bit of common wisdom, and this article tell about it.
It can be authoritatively said that spending most of the day sitting will shorten your life span. This statement is based on analysis of records kept between 1993 and 2006 on 120,000 people by researchers at Ochsner Health Systems in Louisiana.
After adjusting in the population followed for the 13 years for body mass index (BMI) and smoking, sitting for 6 hours a day was found to be a major health risk. The results found that women have a 37 percent higher risk of dying during the length of the study when compared with women that sat less than 3 hours a day. The same comparison for men resulted in a 17 percent higher risk of dying during the 13 years of the study.
Exercise did lower this risk of early death, but not as much as was anticipated. Speculative reasons for this discrepancy from the expected provided by the researchers center on the idea that as muscles are inactive for long periods of time, hormones are released affecting cholesterol and triglycerides levels in such a way that the likelihood of heart disease is increased.
According to oncologist and study author Jay Brooks in a USA Today story, it’s one more reason to ‘get up and walk’. He further says, “If you’re in a job that requires sitting, that’s fine, but any time you can expend energy is good. That’s the key”.
This study backs up the assertion that people are meant to move. Jobs more and more require people to sit still to complete them, be it sitting behind a wheel, a computer screen or at a reception desk. By not moving your body while at this task, you are killing yourself.
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Useful information, however, regular exercise still helpful in the plan to manage diabetes. It is best to do exercise with diet control together to get better optimum results.
Regular exercise, alkaline hydration, and a flexible mental attitude are all parts of a successful aniti-diabetes campaign.