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Risks/Prevention

Simple changes in your daily routine can help to prevent sedentary behavior and the risks that come along with it. Finding your favorite way to stay active can help you decrease risk factors of sedentary behavior!

  • double the risk of cardiovascular diseases

  • diabetes

  • obesity

  • poor blood circulation

  • high blood pressure

  • osteoporosis

  • depression

  • anxiety

  • stroke

You Are At Risk!

Watch out! A sedentary lifestyle can lead to the following risks:

Losing Weight

Much of the reason people gain so much weight is due to their sedentary behavior. These tips and tricks will help prevent such weight gain. Following these principles will lead not only to weight loss, but to a happier life!

Losing Weight

What you can do in 2 minutes?!

An experiment was done by a research institute for sports and exercise science in the United Kingdom by Sophie E. Carter, et al. testing how breaks between sedentary behavior impacted cerebral blood flow.​
In their experiment they found that people who take frequent two minute walking breaks have little to no reduction in cerebral blood flow.

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References

Diehr, P., & Hirsch, C. (2010). Health benefits of increased walking for sedentary, generally healthy older adults: Using longitudinal

       data to approximate an intervention trial. The Journals of Gerontology.Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences,

       65A(9), 982-989. doi:10.1093/gerona/glq070

Sperlich, B., De Clerck, I., Zinner, C., Holmberg, H., & Wallmann-Sperlich, B. (2018). Prolonged sitting interrupted by 6-min of high-              intensity exercise: Circulatory, metabolic, hormonal, thermal, cognitive, and perceptual responses. Frontiers in Physiology,          9, 1279.

        doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.01279

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TABATA, I., NISHIMURA, K., KOUZAKI, M., HIRAI, Y., OGITA, F., MIYACHI, M., & YAMAMOTO, K. (1996). Effects of moderate-intensity                           endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max. Medicine and Science in Sports           and Exercise, 28(10), 1327-1330.

       doi:10.1097/00005768-199610000-00018

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Carter, S. E., ijer, R., Holder, S. M., Brown, L., Thijssen, D. H. J., & Hopkins, N. D. (2018). Regular walking breaks prevent the decline in cerebral blood flow associated with prolonged sitting. Journal of Applied Physiology (1985), 125(3), 790-798. doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00310.2018

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