Swapping just one hour of sitting with walking or other physical activity every day can decrease your chances of an early death by 12 to 14%, according to a new study conducted over 2,00,000 Australians. The study , a first of its kind, shows that swapping even one hour of daily sitting with standing is linked to a 5% reduction in the risk of premature death.
"Previous research established the benefits of adequate physical activity or sleep and the risks of too much sitting, but this is the first to look at what happens when we replace one activity with an equal amount of another," said lead author Emmanuel Stamatakis."The results show that inactivity is an even bigger public health challenge than we initially thought," he said.
" It's also time for governments to realise that physical activity cannot be treated as the sole responsibility of individuals because we ive in a physical activity-hostile world," said Stamatakis, whose team used statistical modelling of health-related data from the over 2,00,000 randomly sampled middle-aged and older people in the study , conducted over a four year period.
"Previous research established the benefits of adequate physical activity or sleep and the risks of too much sitting, but this is the first to look at what happens when we replace one activity with an equal amount of another," said lead author Emmanuel Stamatakis."The results show that inactivity is an even bigger public health challenge than we initially thought," he said.
" It's also time for governments to realise that physical activity cannot be treated as the sole responsibility of individuals because we ive in a physical activity-hostile world," said Stamatakis, whose team used statistical modelling of health-related data from the over 2,00,000 randomly sampled middle-aged and older people in the study , conducted over a four year period.
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