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March 2010

Get up, sitting for long can kill you – Even Exercising Won’t Help If You Spend Hrs At Office Desk Or Watching TV:

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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65 Get up, sitting for long
can kill you – Even Exercising Won’t Help If You Spend Hrs At Office Desk Or
Watching TV:


Here’s a
new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly
warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you exercise regularly —
could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes
place — at office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the
number of hours it occurs.

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.

“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.

(Source: The Times of India dated 22.10.2010)

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