As new research shows prolonged periods of sitting increases the risk of dementia (among a plethora of other health issues), experts share everything you need to know about counteracting it
This is possibly the hardest part to swallow: exercising once a day is not enough, even if it is vigorous. A large-scale study published in the journalcompared a group of “active couch potatoes”, who worked out for 30 minutes then sat almost non-stop for 10 hours, with a group of people who got up and moved around every so often. The latter group had substantially better health outcomes.
“So by definition, you could be active because you can do more than 150 minutes of exercise a week, but you could still be sedentary. And because they are independent, you still have the risk factors associated with sitting even if you engage in that exercise.”“Standing engages the muscles needed to keep you balanced and upright,” says Jasmine Ward, MSK physiotherapist at
The question is how often that should be. Is there a magic number we should all be aiming for? “There has been a lot of work done by the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, and what they are finding is that breaking up sitting every 30 minutes has positive health outcomes,” says Dr Mackintosh.
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