Why walking may be the best antidote to a sedentary lifestyle
India, June 24 -- Fifty-three years after Bob Marley and Peter Tosh first exhorted people to "Get up, stand up...", and 44 years after Tom Peters and Robert Waterman extolled the benefits of "Management By Walking Around" or MBWA, a recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine seemed to borrow from both to recommend the optimal cure for the bane of white-collar jobs: sitting. Chairs, we've known for some time, can kill us, albeit much more slowly, than cigarettes can. Sitting, as they say, is (indeed) the new smoking, with the link between prolonged sedentariness and adverse long-term health impact, well-established. The cure: walking around for five minutes every hour, which the study says offsets the ills of prolonged (11-12 h...
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