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Today in #Employer Coverage: Americans are less #sedentary than a decade earlier, but there is pleny of room for improvement.

https://open.substack.com/pub/employercoverage/p/americans-are-less-sedentary-than

Grim reading.

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.70157

Abstract
INTRODUCTION
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Sedentary behavior may be a modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We examined how sedentary behavior relates to longitudinal brain structure and cognitive changes in older adults.
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METHODS
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Vanderbilt Memory and Aging Project participants (n = 404) completed actigraphy (7 days), neuropsychological assessment, and 3T brain MRI over a 7-year period. Cross-sectional and longitudinal linear regressions examined sedentary time in relation to brain structure and cognition. Models were repeated testing for effect modification by apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 status.
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RESULTS
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In cross-sectional models, greater sedentary time related to a smaller AD-neuroimaging signature (β = -0.0001, p = 0.01) and worse episodic memory (β = -0.001, p = 0.003). Associations differed by APOE-ε4 status. In longitudinal models, greater sedentary time related to faster hippocampal volume reductions (β = -0.1, p = 0.008) and declines in naming (β = -0.001, p = 0.03) and processing speed (β = -0.003, p = 0.02; β = 0.01, p = 0.01).
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DISCUSSION
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Results support the importance of reducing sedentary time, particularly among aging adults at genetic risk for AD.
Highlights
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Greater sedentary behavior is related to neurodegeneration and worse cognition.
Associations differed by APOE-ε4 carrier status in cross-sectional models.
Sedentary behavior is an independent risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

It goes on much longer & deeper, but i could only bear skimming over it.

#Health #ageing #sedentary #alzheimersdisease

'Midlife exercise may help lower Alzheimer's risk'

"An increase in physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 could help prevent Alzheimer's disease, while inactivity may be detrimental to brain health."

"It is estimated that 13% of Alzheimer's disease cases worldwide can be attributed to physical inactivity."

"While extensive research has shown that exercise reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease by improving cardiovascular and mental health, recent studies suggest that physical activity may have a direct impact on the development of brain pathology associated with the disease."

"Participants who increased their physical activity to meet WHO-recommended levels showed less beta-amyloid accumulation than those who remained sedentary or reduced their physical activity. Moreover, this effect appeared to be dose-dependent; the greater the increase in activity, the greater the reduction in amyloid burden."

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250430/Midlife-exercise-may-help-lower-Alzheimers-risk.aspx

#health #Alzheimer #exercise #sedentary #sitting

Getting up and #exercising once a day for an hour is great, but if you spend the rest of your day sitting, those benefits decrease. Being #sedentary for hours, whether it's during the long #commute or at a desk, can impact how well the #immunesystem works, leaving you prone to #inflammation. Increasing #physical activity during the day improves #circulation and enhances #immunefunction. Simple activities such as #standing during #phonecalls and taking a #walk and #lunch can make a difference.

Encouraging #kids to play with fire? Hear us out says party worried by #Netherlands’ increasingly #sedentary ways

10 y/o Jackie stood with a pan in open fire, chatting when her popcorn caught alight

With no sign of panic, her mother put flames out. Then they calmly cooked a 2nd batch

“This is much more fun than other #playgrounds”

“I’m a teacher at a #school where they encourage risk-taking play,” she said. “It’s learning about boundaries.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/02/soft-spaces-out-stick-fighting-in-dutch-call-for-the-return-of-risky-play

#children #parks #play

For those who don’t know, the Mr. Universe pageant is all about body building. Those who have built their bodies to the maximum musculature are vying for the best bodies to be determined by the hopefully neutral judges.

They are judged on symmetry, proportion, muscle size and clarity.

Needless to say, I would not be eligible to win such a competition with my Dad bod. (Full disclosure: I am not a Dad.) But back in the day, when I did have a good body, I wouldn’t have been eligible for any of the awards of this pageant, either. Indeed I felt insecure about my body precisely because it never measured up to the standards of these body builders. By the very nature of this competition, you are meant to not feel good enough unless you are one of the top body builders in the world.

Indeed, people accomplished-with-their-bodies are meant to feel worse about their bodies because of these competitions. You know, gold medal swimmers, runners, decathletes, shotputters etc. feel lesser than body builders because of this competition.

I looked at some of the bios of the Mr. Universe winners and saw that only Eddy Ellwood was a Strong man competitor in Britain. In other words, all that body building doesn’t necessarily make a competent athlete. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that they are athletes. Decades ago I remember watching Battle of the Network Stars and thought that it was unfair that Lou Ferrigno (the Hulk) could compete. But then I saw him run his fastest. Those muscles in his legs may be strong but they weren’t fast.

So now I say don’t waste your time regretting that you don’t have a bodybuilder’s body. Your body may be attractive in its own right. I now think my high school body was good. I could see a six pack in my body back then. I thought I had a sunken in chest but I think it might have looked that way only because I had broad shoulders. Then I also felt insecure of the body I had in my twenties. I gained 15 pounds when I turned 20. The bottom two muscles in my six pack were now covered by a bit of fat so you could no longer see them. But my chest had gained muscle and now jutted out. But I was convinced that I weighed too little. I would be proud to have either body right now. And I will miss my present Dad bod when I am just a brain in a jar somewhere, clinging to a truly sedentary life.

I believe Mr. Universe is harming the world with the looks it presents as being excellent. That’s all it is, is looks. There is no talent contest. There are no questions that might make you think of these men as anything but muscle heads. These contests are worse for society than even beauty pageants. Still, if I had to move furniture and could only choose my movers based on looks, I think I would choose the last couple reigning Mr. Universes.

https://larryrusswurm.com/2024/11/02/the-mr-universe-pageant/

#BattleOfTheNetworkStars #bodyBuilding #brainInAJar #broadShoulders #DadBod #decathletes #EddyEllwood #feelInsecureBecauseOfThisPageant #feltLikeIWeighedTooLittle #goldMedalWinnersMadeInsecure #looks #LouFerrigno #MrUniverse #muscleClarity #muscleHeads #muscleSize #noQuestions #noTalentContest #proportion #runners #sedentary #shotputters #sixPack #StrongManCompetitor #sunkenInChest #swimmers #symmetry #theHulk

Scientists Reveal Optimal Number of Daily Steps to Offset Sitting Down
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-optimal-number-of-daily-steps-to-offset-sitting-down #health #steps #optimal #sedentary #CVD #risk

#Sedentary behavior found to increase #mortalityrisk

A rigorous new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association has data showing that older women who sat for 11.7 hours or more per day increased their risk of death by 30 percent, regardless of whether they exercised vigorously.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-sedentary-behavior-mortality.html

Uterine fibroids
Risk of growth is increased
By a sedentary life

#fibroids #uterus #sedentary #risk #haiku #poetry

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sedentary-lifestyle-may-increase-risk-of-uterine-fibroids

We talk #fitness and work #sedentary.
This is a clue to why #obesity keeps rising in a culture that celebrates working out.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/11/more-exercise-but-less-physical-activity/

Why fidgeting is good for you
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230814-why-fidgeting-is-good-for-you
#fidgeting #health #adhd #BBC #exercise #obesity #sedentary

Nun kommen die Frauen aus russischen Gefängnissen an die Front. Es begann eine Massenrekrutierung von #Frauen aus 🇷🇺 Kolonien an die Front. Sie ziehen bereitwilliger in den #Krieg als Männer. „Der Wunsch verurteilter und nicht verurteilter Frauen, in den Krieg zu ziehen, ist sehr groß“, sagte Olga Romanova, die Gründerin des Rus' #Sedentary -Projekts, in einem Interview mit MO. #TerrorstaatRussland https://twitter.com/anna_lena2022/status/1687409864417370112?s=12&t=XiRG-Sez1u-PH3RmVs3fuA

Cardio #exercise is good, but you should warm up first, we're told.
#Stretching is good, but you should warm up first, we're told.
#Lifting weights is good, but you should warm up first, we're told.

The #sedentary class wants to know, then -- how can you warm up?

The participants completed questionnaires to report their level of physical activity (sedentary, light, moderate or vigorous).

https://artifact.news/l/1Tx9ypfCeUc= #physical #sedentary #moderate #vigorous #exercise #painmanagement #chronicpain

I’ll be picking up a wireless mic setup at my mailbox today. The first purpose is to make it possible to back up away from my ipad when on #zoom I can also lead outdoor ceremonies, etc. I’m thinking that it will lessen my zoom burnout because I won’t need to be right up in the screen—less intimacy and intensity. The second purpose is that I can stand up and move around when recording audio only programs for the Insight Timer app and a possible podcast. Less #sedentary

Our #preprint is out :ablobcatenjoy:

Associations of #weather and #airpollution with #physicalactivity & #sedentary time before and after #bariatric #surgery: a prospective cohort study

Data from #Boston #RhodesIsland

Major findings in #climatechange perspective

#academia #research #obesity #PlanetaryHealth #health

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.22.23287589v1

I got a mini #treadmill a few weeks ago, and I’m honestly surprised at how much of a difference doing 15 minutes of brisk #walking every other day makes

Highly #recommend if you are an otherwise #sedentary work from home person