Posts Tagged ‘physical activity’

You thought big butts are a problem, they are when glued to a chair. Scientists are warning that sitting for long periods of time is dangerous to your health.

Getting up from the couch means that you don’t plop down on the nearest chair, it seems that sitting is just as dangerous as reclining all day.

Now What?

In an editorial published this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define physical activity to highlight the dangers of sitting. There are many reasons why a lack of activity is lethal.

“After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send harmful signals,” Ekblom-Bak said. She explained that genes regulating the amount of glucose and fat in the body start to shut down.

Figures from a U.S. survey in 2003-2004 found Americans spend more than half their time sitting, from working at their desks to sitting in cars.

A study by Nielsen Co, a ratings company, found that Americans spent an average of 151 hours a month viewing the TV during the fourth quarter of 2008, Even for people who exercise, spending long stretches of time sitting at a desk is still harmful.

Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization, said people who exercise every day — but still spend a lot of time sitting — might get more benefit if that exercise were spread across the day, rather than in a single bout.

Another Look

One study suggested a woman’s risk of metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes and heart disease, jumps 26% for every extra hour she sits in front of the TV. Whole-body muscular inactivity associated with prolonged sitting has also been strongly linked to obesity and even certain types of cancer.

What we are looking at is a future trend. Everyone saw it coming as we totally switched to hIgh-frequency living. We have been winding down from a manual society to a pain free no gain much weaker addition. I call it our Waterloo, a pace that can break us as we move like snails through life. What we call a fast paced life that has people using more technology, while at the same time transforming us into a new level of physical decline.

 It’s Come to This

A new editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine said that people who sit still for long periods of time — such as desk workers or couch potatoes — have a higher risk of disease than those who move a muscle every now and then in a non-exercise manner, such as walking up the stairs to grab a cup of coffee.  

From the computer, to the desk top games, and television, we may show our prowess playing video games, but we may be a zero when displaying our physical strength. Unless walking up the stairs to grab a cup of coffee is an extra ordinary accomplishment.

Crisis

Researchers in Australia found the increase in mortality that came from spending too many hours sitting in front of the TV. This held true even when people exercised regularly.

The study, appeared in the journal Circulation, is the work of lead author Dr.David Dunstan, a researcher at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, and colleagues.

For six years Dunstan and colleagues followed 8,800 people aged 25 and over  who took part in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study and found that the participants who watched four or more hours a day watched TV were 46 per cent more likely to succumb to any cause and 80 percent more likely to become a statistic from cardiovascular disease compared to people who said they spend less than two hours in a day watching TV.

Get up

Adapting to survive in the world of webinars, American Idol, and video gaming is a new challenge. You need to have more positions than reclining, and sitting. You can’t afford to be a sitting duck. We will show you how to pick up your activity level, get up and get going. Stay tuned and we will show you how to turn down the electronics and turn up your conditioning

Walking away from diabetes is something that anyone can do. You can decrease your chances of developing type 2 diabetes, and reverse its course. By taking the appropriate steps as in walking, you reduce your chances of developing Type 2 diabetes by 50%.

Exercise is physical gold. It is the key force in managing the fundamentals of health. By performing Physical activity you lessen the chance of becoming disabled from all causes.

Activity

The factors to consider are two fold. One, activity normalizes glucose levels, and two, it energizes. Calories are said to be used for energy. If that were true the more you eat the greater amount of energy you should have. Remember how energetic you felt after a Thanksgiving dinner. This will tell you the fleeting and unreliability of scientific sounding insights.

Highly nutritious foods that fuel your body are usable for cellular energy. The other source of energy comes from activity. This vitalizes your lymph, and cardiovascular system.

Getting Started

Leisurely activity is a way to get started. Actually the best way to look at it is that not doing anything is risky. It is tough to start when you are sitting on the fence for so long. The thing to remember is that you are in control of meeting the challenge. Not exercising your option is at your own risk.

The total amount of activity is more important than the intensity in lowering blood pressure in children. This was reported by United Kingdom researchers in the Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Activity that works for blood pressures means it works for all the systems. The frequency of activity is important. More urgent is getting your foot in the water. Likewise, while exercise is important, many people don’t place enough value on activities from performing everyday tasks like lifting and chasing children, lugging groceries and cleaning house. Anything beats sitting around without moving around.

Look Here     

Collapsing onto the couch in front of the television is only O.K. if you are winding down from increased activity. This is a personal investment which most people seem to put off with dire consequence. To change your outlook in 2010 we will have under construction a rookies guide to exercise.

We will show how to walk away from diabetes, and become healthier, with step by step instructions. We have some highly regarded fitness experts, which will do everything but do it for you.

Alicia Weber is a fitness instuctor who will give you an idea of how simple it is to start an exercise program.

Lifestyle is the answer to stress. Lifestyle is more than just the food you eat, though that is a big part of the picture. Most alternative physicians are aware that body, mind, and spirit are a package deal when it comes to overall health status.

Keys To Health

Optimal performance is the sum total of nutrition, activity, optimism, and mood.Everything listed for health effects one’s mood. From emotional eating to isolation are indicators of overall survival abilities. All these actions demonstrate immune-modulating capabilities.

 Lethal Dangers

Human studies validate the benefits of social contact. Studies have shown that socially isolated female rats develop a larger number of more aggressive tumors than rats living in a social group. This is according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.

The dramatic increase in mammary tumors among isolated Norway rats – which, like humans, are a highly social species-illustrates how loneliness can be deadly, the authors report in findings to be published the week of December 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“There is a growing interest in relationships between the environment, emotion and disease. This study offers insight into how the social world gets under the skin,” said Gretchen Hermes, first author of the paper and a resident in the Neurosciences Research Training Program in the Yale Department of Psychiatry.

 Stress

Isolation seems to bring with it a stress reaction. Stress is linked to the activation of cancer-promoting genes. Social isolation triggers fear and anxiety. What the study doesn’t do is tie stress to diet. A good diet with optimal nutrition mitigates dangerous stimulus that disrupt the body’s normal biological and psychological equilibrium.

The way the body handles stress is key to the effect it will have. Stress is a fact of life in these times. Not only is the pace of life frantic, but social isolation is more prevalent. The pressures are exacerbated when other factors such as poor health are part of the equation.

A Better Way

Stress can also cause heart rate and blood pressure to increase. There are a number of things that send people to the doctor’s office, which are stress related. You need good cellular energy to deal with something as energy draining as stress. Stress causes a deficit in mitochondrial energy.

Exercise is a stress modifier, but much less publicized is the fact that certain vitamins, minerals are stress busters and mood enhancers. Nutritional strategies are key, and also are other strategies. Overlooked and just as important is something called the biology of belief.

Health, by definition, is the sine qua non (condition) of everything else. It’s all in your head has meaning. Reality is from the Inside out, it’s all in your mind is the truth. It boils down to your interpretation of the world, and that becomes your view. How you experience something is the sum total of what you were taught, past experiences, and your health status.

Meditation, prayer, social interaction will all define your lifestyle, as well as nutrition and exercise. When using rats for models, these are the variables that can’t be part of the equation. However, it shows that isolated rats developed 84 times the amount of tumors as those living in groups. These were also faster spreading than the tumors of the social animals, and were of a larger size.

Environment, Emotion and Disease

To disregard the lifestyle components that affect every aspect of our lives is a formula for disaster. Our environment is more problematic. Emotional health is the ability to cope with the stresses of life. This is where the environment plays a key role. The internal environment must be healthy enough to protect one from the effects of stress from the outside.

Lifestyle is the sum total of nutritional status, activity level, belief system, and outlook. Rats are gregarious and social, and so are humans. So when it comes to health it is the whole package, which is the whole as in holistic. Turning to modern medicine will not get you the answer you need. We are not parts, and systems, we are a whole entity, that needs all parts operational.