Sitting for long hours can put your health at risk; what the experts want you to know
At the end of the study, the researchers formed four separate groups of people, depending on how much they moved during the day.
1,173 of the participants were “active couch potatoes”, 1,199 were “slightly sedentary”, 694 were “sedentary athletes”, and 636 were “athletes”.
Both active and mildly sedentary couch potatoes exercise for 30 minutes a day and sit down for the rest of the day. However, the light-moving devices in the appendages worked 40% more than the couch potatoes worked.
Sedentary exercisers sit for long hours but enjoy exercising for an hour a day.
On the other hand, active people not only exercise for an hour, but they also spend an extra two hours in their daily tasks.
After comparing all of these groups, the researchers found that couch potatoes had the worst control of blood sugar, body fat percentage, and cholesterol levels.