AIqMHYal28lKAdQmO9SiBiI.jpg' alt='My Heart Movie Gratis' title='My Heart Movie Gratis' />News and reviews on the trends and rising stars in movies, music, television and more. How Much Do You Need. By Alice Park Sept. Illustration by Robin Davey for TIMEYouve already heard that sitting is the new smoking. Now, scientists reveal exactly how it hurts the bodyand novel ways to undo the damage without clocking hours at the gym. You might want to stand up for this. We like to think were a stand up species. After all, thats what drove our evolutionary march away from many of our four legged ancestors. TM Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. AdultSwim. com is part of Turner Entertainment Digital which is. But everywhere we go are invitations to sit down. Hop into your car and whats thereIf youre lucky, a plush bucket seat designed with just the right tilt for your back. On the subway to workA less comfortable seat, to be sure, but youll grab one if you can. Once at work, an office chair. At home, your favorite fauteuil. But all that hospitality, all those opportunities to give your feet a break, are doing untold things to the rest of your body. From standing desks and fitness trackers to groundbreaking pilot experiments in high schools in several cities, the movement to sit less and stand more is gaining momentum. Which is a good thing, because new evidence suggests that the more than eight hours the average American spends sitting every day could be exacting a seriousand previously misunderstoodtoll. In the latest look at the benefits of getting on the move and the dangers of sitting still researchers found that an hour of moderate activity, such as brisk walking, can offset the harms that sitting for eight hours can have. And there is also data showing that exercise benefits arent just for middle aged and older people but for younger people as well. Andrea Chomistek from Indiana University and her colleagues found in a study published in Circulation that women aged 2. The results bring the dangers of inactivity to a relatively new group younger women who normally arent at high risk of things like heart disease or diabetes. It wasnt how often the women exercised that mattered, but the fact that they did any activity, including brisk walking, was beneficial. Studies have long connected sedentary behavior to poor health, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity and hypertension. But doctors thought those problems could be traced to the fact that people who sat more were probably just not working out very much. The public health messages were in step with that thinking. Lets Move became a national mantra. But while exercise is critical, it alone cant make up for the ills of idleness. New research shows theres a big difference between exercising too little and sitting too much. Thats because a standing body uses energy altogether differently from a sedentary bodyand also from an exercising one. We burn calories at a different rate, store them in different ways, and our brains function differently, too. While data is still emerging, one experiment with high school kids found that standing in class instead of sitting improved their test scores by 2. All of which has doctors and health experts calling for a paradigm shift. In the same way that standing up is an oddity now, sitting down should be, says Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and probably best known as the inventor of the first treadmill desk. My argument is that whatever building it isa movie theater, airport, arts complexa fundamental part of our thinking has become that people who enter that space will need to be seated. And thats what got us into all this trouble in the first place. This Is Your Body On Sitting. Its not entirely our fault. As we moved from an active, agricultural lifestyle to one of offices and automated transport, every aspect of our day, from our meals to our jobs and our entertainment, have been adapted with one priority in mind our comfort. Where our ancestors spent the large bulk of their waking hours on the go, modern life entails sitting for as much as half the day and thats not counting sleeping. The first studies to connect sedentary behavior to poor health emerged in recent decades when scientists started to confirm, in a reproducible way, the effect that extra pounds can have on the body. In these large analyses of men and women of nearly every age, the message was clear People who spent more hours of the day sitting were more likely to develop a host of health problems. A closer look at that data showed that swapping an hour on the couch for an hour playing catch wouldnt cut it. A recent review of 4. In another study involving a group of men and women who reported exercising the same amount, each additional hour they spent sitting was linked to a drop in their fitness levels. In other words, sitting was chipping away at some of the benefits of exercise. Thats an important realization. The human body consumes energy in three main ways every cell needs energy to go about its daily business, whether its a muscle cell that contracts and flexes or a liver cell that produces enzymes we also need to break down the food that we eat finally, we need energy to move, whether were pulling on a shirt or riding a bike. That latter energylets call it activity energyis further divided into the sweat inducing kind that you use on the treadmill or in yoga and another kind, which scientists have cleverly called NEAT non exercise activity thermogenesis. Mind Map Windows 8.1. This includes nearly everything you do requiring movement folding the laundry, walking up a flight of stairs, running to catch a train, even fidgeting. The human body is designed to move, and a moving body is a needy body, siphoning off calories to make sure every cell is doing what its supposed to do. But even when were not exercising, were moving and using energy. Thats why NEAT matters. A body thats sitting isnt expending energy, so the signals that normally result in you movingand which, in turn, burn caloriesstart to check out, molecularly bored with not being called into duty. Meanwhile, the processes that build up fat get busier. When that happens, it gets harder and harder to get off the chair. The other signals that keep us rooted on our rears may originate in the brain. In animal studies, obese rats seemed to have a switch that prevented them from burning NEAT calories efficiently. The reason why isnt clear yet, but researchers are studying the brain signals that govern what makes us more likely to moveor not moveto answer it. That could help explain, at least in part, why too much sitting seems to be so bad for the human body. People who sit at their desks most of the time, for example, only polish off 3. Citizen Alarm Chronograph Manual. NEAT calories a day compared to, say, a coffee shop barista who spends most of his or her shift standingand burning up to 1,3. Theres also intriguing evidence that sitting less may short circuit some bodily processes that lead to diabetes. When we eat meals, our bodies experience a surge in blood sugar that peaks about an hour after we eat. If were sedentary and relatively immobile, our muscles and cells arent soaking up that glucose to fuel its daily activities. So all that extra sugar gets turned into fat. If we take a walk after lunch, however, some of that sugar is burned off in order to keep us on our feet and propel us forward. The less sugar thats left after that activity, the less that gets turned into fat and contributes to obesity and eventually diabetes. Becoming a body in motion. Even if youre wired in some ways to sit, can you become a stand up person Absolutely, says Levine.