{"id":896,"date":"2016-07-28T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2016-07-28T08:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:47:40","slug":"hours-activity-offsets-sedentary-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/hours-activity-offsets-sedentary-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour&#8217;s activity &#8216;offsets sedentary day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An hour&#8217;s &#8220;brisk exercise&#8221; each day offsets the risks of early death linked to a desk-bound working life, scientists suggest.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis of data from more than a million people is part of a study of physical activity published in the Lancet to coincide with the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Watching TV was found to be worse than sitting at a desk, probably because of associated habits like snacking.<\/p>\n<p>Current NHS guidelines recommend 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week.<\/p>\n<p>Being inactive is known to increase the risk of conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.<\/p>\n<p>It has been linked to 5.3 million deaths globally a year &#8211; compared with 5.1 million linked to smoking.<\/p>\n<p>The Lancet research says the global cost, for healthcare and lost productivity, is estimated at $67.5bn per year.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-36895789\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An hour&#8217;s &#8220;brisk exercise&#8221; each day offsets the risks of early death linked to a desk-bound working life, scientists suggest. The analysis of data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141,172,290],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body","tag-exercise","tag-healthy","tag-sedentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}