I'm sure we will see people using this to claim that this is purely individual choice, and ignore the fact that many business are requiring office workers to work longer hours (w/o more pay) and that the elite want to raise the retirement age, forcing people to work at such jobs into old age.http://www.today.com/health/staying-active-all-day-linked-longer-healthier-life-2D11674405
Kathryn Doyle Reuters
Nov. 29, 2013
A generally active life, even without regular exercise sessions, was tied to better heart health and greater longevity in a study of older Swedes.
Based on nearly 3,900 men and women over age 60 in Stockholm, the study adds to evidence suggesting that just sitting around may be actively harmful, researchers say.
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Whether someone exercises vigorously or not, it still usually only takes up a small fraction of the day. That leaves the rest of the time for either sitting still or engaging in non-exercise activities, like home repairs, lawn care and gardening, car maintenance, hunting or fishing.
For older people, who tend to exercise vigorously less than younger people, spending more time doing low-intensity activities like these could help cut down on sitting time, Ekblom-Bak and her colleagues write in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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People who had reported high levels of daily non-exercise activity were less likely to suffer a heart-related event and less likely to die than those who were the least active.
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While sitting, muscles do not contract and blood flow decreases, which reduces the efficiency of many body processes, like absorbing glucose from the blood, said Dunstan, who studies heart health and exercise.
Non-exercise activity likely prevents the general slowing-down associated with sitting, he told Reuters Health.
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"Human beings are designed to move," said Phillip B. Sparling, a professor of Applied Physiology and Health Behavior at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who was not involved with the new study.
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