Standing more results in better blood work, says study
Posted on: 13/Aug/2015 11:50:01 AM
A study was conducted to determine the effects of sitting vs standing. Conducted on 780 men and women, the study showed that two hours of sitting along with two hours of standing or stepping is good for the heart and results in inch loss. It also showed that, when an individual spent more time standing, he had better blood sugar and cholesterol and also lower fat in the blood.
Say researchers, The associations it revealed were consistent with what was already known about the benefits of an active lifestyle... To get our results, we gave activity monitors to more than 780 men and women aged between 36 and 80. Participants wore the monitors for 24 hours a day for one week, and from this data we were able to accurately determine how long each participant spent sleeping, sitting or lying down, standing and stepping, which included walking and running... We also took blood samples and measured blood pressure, height, weight, and waist circumference... Extra standing time was also associated with higher average levels of the good type of cholesterol known as HDL, and replacing two hours a day of sitting time with stepping was associated with about an 11 per cent lower average BMI and a 7.5-centimeter (3-inch) smaller average waist circumference... These findings provide important preliminary evidence that strategies to increase the amount of time spent standing or walking rather than sitting may benefit the heart and metabolism.
