Physicians from Norway, Australia and the United States have determined the nature of physical load and its optimal duration, allowing office workers to reduce the likelihood of mortality due to a sedentary lifestyle up to 60 percent. Devoted to a study published in the Lancet journal, briefly about it, reports the University of Cambridge.
To fully eliminate the negative effect of a sedentary lifestyle men and women enough to do moderate exercise. The term refers to, for example, walking at a speed of not less than 4.8 kilometres per hour or Cycling at a speed of about 16 miles per hour.
The load duration should be at least an hour. Recommendations of specialists just for those who each day spends about eight hours in a sitting position. In this case, the optimal loads are considered, the fulfillment of which is given 60-75 minutes. Individual steps in physical education classes can be separated in time.
To such conclusions scientists have come, having conducted a meta-analysis of 16 papers devoted to the impact of a sedentary lifestyle on health status. The data is based on information about more than a million men and women, most of whom live in the EU, USA and Australia.
According to a study published in March 2016 by the Brazilian physicians, a sedentary lifestyle leads to increased risk of premature death. To reduce the risk can, according to scientists, only a reduction in time spent in sedentary, but not exercise.
