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Workplace health: Sitting is bad for your health: Simple ways to counteract the effects – BBC News 中文

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Many office jobs involve prolonged sitting

To reduce the health hazards of sitting for too long, get up and move around for five minutes every half hour. That’s the main finding of a new study by my colleagues and me, published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

We asked 11 healthy middle-aged and elderly people (volunteers) to sit in our laboratory for 8 hours – representing a typical working day (office workers) – for a total of 5 days.

On one day, the volunteers sat for a full eight hours, taking breaks only for brief trips to the bathroom.

But on other days, we tested different tactics for interrupting the volunteers’ sedentary situations, for example, standing up and walking for a minute every half hour on one day; Let them walk for 5 minutes every hour.

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