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What if I take a 5-minute break to walk outside every 45 minutes? It's very difficult to find reliable sources on this. It seems everybody is just parroting wha

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/health/sitting-increases-risk-of-death-study/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/health/sitting-increases-risk... http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-0212 http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-0212 > Take a movement break every 30 minutes, say experts. No matter how much you exercise, sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death, a new study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found. > There's a direct relationship between time spent sitting and your risk of early mortality of any cause, researchers said, based on a study of nearly 8,000 adults. As your total sitting time increases, so does your risk of an early death. The positive news: People who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death. In short, sitting time accrues in a health debt you can't pay back with breaks.
• scorpioxy 8y ago
  I am not sure that there is one. It hasn't been that long that people started sitting at their desks for 10+ hours a day so I'd imagine it would be a few more years until research starts going anywhere. Personally, I've been trying a few different things and letting my body tell me what feels right.