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American Cancer Society sitting study: Stand up for your life
http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10149&Section=Disease&source=DHB_100909&key=Body+Title
Katie Holland
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.
09-07-10
Sept. 05--The American Cancer Society has a message for Americans: Stand up.
Simply getting out of your office chair of off your couch and standing
or taking a quick walk around the office or house can help people live
longer, according to a recent study published in the July edition of
American Journal of Epidemiology.
The study states: "It's not just how much physical activity you get,
but how much time you spend sitting that can affect your risk of
death."
The study results didn't surprise Columbus Regional Healthcare
System's wellness program manager Dayton Preston, who said that
excessive amounts of sitting contribute to a detrimental cycle of
lethargy.
"The body is made to physically move," Preston said. "And when we
don't do that, there's a lot of repercussions. We've got a combination
of many things that can, bottom line, impact not only length of life,
but quality of life."
He explained that a lack of physical activity deters sleep patterns.
When people don't get a proper night's sleep, and the mental and
physical recovery one gets through sleep, they lack the energy to
properly handle stress.
"They're all going to circle back to each other," said Preston. "If
you're not sleeping, your energy's low, you're not wanting to
exercise, you're wanting to spend more time in the chair." Which is
where the problem starts, according to the study.
Working in an office
This can be especially difficult for people who work in offices, in
front of computers, where they are required to sit for over six hours
each day.
The study focused on leisure-time sitting, but Preston noted that
people who sit for their jobs also have to be careful. He suggests
taking flexibility breaks twice a day and getting up to walk around
every hour or so to improve circulation, take pressure off the lower
back and engage lower body muscles.
But he also warns not to let that stand in for your day's physical activity.
"The trap a lot of people run into is they substitute that for
exercise," Preston said. "And a good example of that would be the
people who say 'Take the stairs instead of the elevator.' That's
actually a good thing and you're going to promote a little more
activity, but you can't say 'Well, I took the stairs today so I got
some physical activity.' That is not a replacement for exercise."
And standing all day isn't necessarily an appropriate option either.
Tim Johnson, M.D., a transitional year resident at Columbus Regional,
attempted that for one day and admitted it was "really difficult." His
colleagues asked him if something was wrong when he stood through a
meeting and a speaker at a lecture gave him strange looks for standing
during a presentation.
"I think society needs to absorb this before it will be very easy to
stand the whole time," he said. "But there are a lot of different
things you can do to overcome this."
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and sad people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin
their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is any change
to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any drug except for
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your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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