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“Just a five-minute walk every hour helps protect against damage of sitting all day,” the Mail Online reports.
A study of 12 healthy but inactive young men found that if they sat still without moving their legs for three hours, the walls of their main leg artery showed signs of decreased flexibility. However, this was “prevented” if the men took five-minute light walking breaks about every hour.
Less flexibility in the walls of the arteries has been linked to atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries), which increases the risk of heart disease.
However, it is not possible to say from this small and short-term study whether taking walking breaks would definitely reduce a person’s risk of heart disease.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/be...locktitle=Behind-the-Headlines&contentID=4530
I have to do that anyway to go to the loo and make another mug of tea! 🙂
A study of 12 healthy but inactive young men found that if they sat still without moving their legs for three hours, the walls of their main leg artery showed signs of decreased flexibility. However, this was “prevented” if the men took five-minute light walking breaks about every hour.
Less flexibility in the walls of the arteries has been linked to atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries), which increases the risk of heart disease.
However, it is not possible to say from this small and short-term study whether taking walking breaks would definitely reduce a person’s risk of heart disease.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/be...locktitle=Behind-the-Headlines&contentID=4530
I have to do that anyway to go to the loo and make another mug of tea! 🙂