{"id":7199,"date":"2013-07-18T20:56:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T10:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2013-07-18T20:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T10:56:39","slug":"sitting-is-deadly-but-frequently-standing-up-reduces-the-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7199","title":{"rendered":"Sitting Is Deadly &#8211; But Frequently Standing Up Reduces The Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting for extended periods of time is an independent risk factor for poor health and premature death. Even if you are very fit, if you uninterruptedly sit for a great percentage of the time, you\u2019re still at an increased risk of dying prematurely.<br \/>\nResearch by the NASA scientist responsible for monitoring the astronauts, shows your body declines rapidly when sitting for long periods.<br \/>\nSimply standing up over 30 times a day is a powerful antidote to long periods of sitting and is more effective than walking.<br \/>\nThere are virtually unlimited opportunities for movement throughout the day, from doing housework or gardening, to cooking and even just standing up every 10 minutes.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not how many hours of sitting that&#8217;s bad for you; it\u2019s how often you interrupt that sitting that is GOOD for you.<\/p>\n<p align=justify>Please read the article, there is a lot more great data in it! And if you are one of the very few who actually IMPLEMENT some of the techniques I share, this will save you 10 seconds of searching, a timer you can run in the background to beep every 10 minutes to remind you to get out of the chair for a second! <a href=\"http:\/\/timer.onlineclock.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/timer.onlineclock.net\/<\/a> I started using it last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting for extended periods of time is an independent risk factor for poor health and premature death. Even if you are very fit, if you uninterruptedly sit for a great percentage of the time, you\u2019re still at an increased risk of dying prematurely. Research by the NASA scientist responsible for monitoring the astronauts, shows your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sitting Is Deadly &#8211; But Frequently Standing Up Reduces The Risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}