Get off the couch, it's killing you

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Credit: ABC Catalyst/YouTube / lesson learn learned fit fitness active life spend hunch posture time spent hunched computer countless hours feckless seat sit sitting seated procrastination benefits exercise muscles slackened slack fat seeped seep insidiously blood liver ventricles stupor infiltrated brain sedentary inactive health unhealthy inactive inactivity studies day daily movement patterns pattern typical modern exerciser exercise run runner running walk walking runs sits hours afterward moving less over all does not work out exercise program programme health consequences swift consequence pervasive punish punishing noteworthy recent experiment conducted scientists University of Massachusetts institution institutions group of healthy young men donned don clunky platform shoe 4 inch 4-inch heel right foot ground hop men hopped about using crutches muscle muscles fully sedentary research scientist scientists biopsy biopsied muscles both legs finding found multiple genes now being expressed differently two legs gene activity DNA repair mechanisms compromise compromised disrupted insulin response decreased depressed dropping oxidative stress increasing rising metabolic activity within individual muscle cells slowing after only 48 hours of inactivity similar similar experiments experiment lab animals animal laboratory casts cast placed back legs rapidly developed noxious cellular changes throughout their bodies immobilized muscles produced substantially less of an enzyme dissolves fat bloodstream result animals humans human animal fat accumulate accumulate migrate heart liver potential potentially leading to cardiac disease diabetes see result results such inactivity scientists scientist National Cancer Institute eight years following almost 250,000 American adults participants answered detailed questions questionnaire how much time they spent commuting watching TV sitting computer exercise exercising general health none suffered from heart disease cancer diabetes watched TV much higher risk premature death measure of sedentary time upright Diabetes Care scientists Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne Australia, had 19 adults sit completely still stand up rise every 20 minutes walk leisurely treadmill two minute blood sugar spiked insulin levels movement two minute short two-minute stroll blood sugar levels remained stable jogging improve blood sugar regulation standing walking important scientists concluded simply breaking up the long interminable hours of sitting University of Massachusettsbvolunteers stood all day balance physical confidence have improved aerobic workouts have been shown to improve brainpower /