Health experts define sedentary behavior as when effort does not raise the energy required above your resting level. Sedentary behavior is seen as a risk factor, and can lead to poor health.<\/p>\n
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that elderly women spend about two-thirds of their waking hours in sedentary behavior. When the women did get active, the activity period normally lasted less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
For the study, the researchers examined the lifestyles of 7,247 elderly women (average age 71) by asking the subjects to wear an accelerometer for 7 days during waking hours.<\/p>\n
The women wore the accelerometer for an average of 14.8 hours a day. During that time, the average percentage of time spent in sedentary behavior was 65.5 percent, equivalent to an average of 9.7 hours per day.<\/p>\n
Total sedentary time increased and the number of periods of sedentary behavior and breaks per sedentary hour decreased as age and body mass index increased.<\/p>\n
“If future studies confirm the health hazards of sedentary behavior and guidelines are warranted, this data may be useful to inform recommendations on how to improve such behavior,” the authors concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Health experts define sedentary behavior as when effort does not raise the energy required above your resting level. Sedentary behavior is seen as a risk factor, and can lead to poor health. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that elderly women spend about two-thirds of their waking hours in sedentary behavior. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t