Stand Up in Front of Obesity

People should have at least thirty minutes of physical activity per day in order to decrease the risk to suffer from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, or become obese, according to specialists. Now, experts at the University of Missouri-Columbia emerge a new model of recommendations regarding daily physical activity.

The researchers studied the effect of inactivity for pigs, humans, and rats. In case of humans, the team studied the impact of reading, watching TV, working at the computer, sitting in office chairs, or talking on the phone.

Intense exercising is not the only way to avoid a sedentary lifestyle. This study showed that other activities may also burn many calories in adults who don`t exercise at all. If you stand up while talking on the phone, you will probably move around or go to pace and this way you may double the number of burned calories, according to Marc Hamilton, professor of biomedical sciences and author of the work published in Diabetes.

Common physical activities that people can do standing up include shopping, typing, fidgeting, and household chores. Researchers believe that the metabolic rate may be doubled due to the muscles` effort to hold the body`s weight upright. The public may have underestimated the importance of common activities because they don`t require so much effort, unlike an intense workout.

People are awake sixteen hours per day, but they spend most of this time sitting and they may lose the opportunity to enhance their metabolism. This study`s purpose is to bring new strategies for people whose actual therapies are not working, said Hamilton. Hamilton hopes that these findings may solve the problem of inactivity due to community involvement and creative strategies at the workplace.