A new study has shown that prolonged sitting during the age period from childhood to adulthood causes an increase in body and abdominal fat, but light physical activity may completely reverse the harmful process.
The study reports indicated that more than 80% of adolescents in the world do not achieve the average recommended by the World Health Organization, which is 60 minutes per day of physical activity.
The study was conducted in cooperation between the Universities of Bristol and Exeter in the United Kingdom, the University of Colorado in the United States, and the University of East Finland, and was published in the journal Nature Communications, in which 6,059 children participated.
During follow-up, measures of increased sedentary time, frequency of light physical activity, moderate and vigorous physical activity, body fat mass, and skeletal muscle mass were collected.
The researchers examined glucose, insulin, cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, and smoking controls.
The researchers noted that every minute a child or teenager spent sedentary was associated with a 1.3-gram increase in total body fat mass.
Conversely, every minute a child or adolescent spent in light physical activity during development between childhood and adulthood was associated with a 3.6-gram reduction in body fat mass.
2023-12-16 14:52:45
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