{"id":1915,"date":"2021-05-19T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2021-05-19T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:15:21","slug":"thirty-minutes-exercise-wont-counteract-sitting-all-day-but-adding-light-movement-can-help-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Thirty minutes\u2019 exercise won\u2019t counteract sitting all day, but adding light movement can help \u2013 new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s recommended we do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day \u2013 or 150 minutes a week \u2013 to stay healthy. But 30 minutes accounts for just 2% of the day. And many of us spend most of the rest of the time sitting.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows that sitting can be bad for our health in many ways \u2013 with some even suggesting it\u2019s as bad for us as smoking. And our new study has revealed that 30 minutes of daily exercise is not enough to overcome the health risks of sitting too much. But we also revealed that with the right balance of time spent exercising and moving, it may be possible to counteract the negatives of sitting.<\/p>\n<p>We combined data from six different studies from the UK, US and Sweden, looking at a total of over 130,000 adults. Each of the studies used a physical activity monitor (like a Fitbit) to measure a person\u2019s movements and sitting time throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/thirty-minutes-exercise-wont-counteract-sitting-all-day-but-adding-light-movement-can-help-new-research-160577\">Continue the story at theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s recommended we do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day \u2013 or 150 minutes a week \u2013 to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}