{"id":3590,"date":"2019-09-02T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/2019\/09\/02\/not-exercising-may-be-worse-than-sitting-too-much\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:45:03","slug":"not-exercising-may-be-worse-than-sitting-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/2019\/09\/02\/not-exercising-may-be-worse-than-sitting-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Exercising May Be Worse Than Sitting Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Not long ago, a landmark study declared that \u201cSitting is the New Smoking!\u201d\u00a0 While the reality isn\u2019t quite as bad as the study made it sound, it\u2019s no secret that Americans sit too much.\u00a0Even if the research team oversold their results slightly, their message was an important one.<\/p>\n

One of the side effects of that study was the sudden surge in standing desks and other office solutions that encouraged less sitting.<\/p>\n

While those products are helpful at the margins, the simple truth is this:\u00a0 Using a standing desk is no substitute for exercising.\u00a0 It\u2019s marginally better than sitting in your chair all day, but a staggering 40 percent of Americans don\u2019t get a meaningful amount of exercise on any given week.\u00a0 That\u2019s the core problem, and until it changes, our country is going to continue to struggle with its obesity epidemic.<\/p>\n

The good news is that adding exercise to your daily routine is easy and painless.\u00a0 We recommend starting small.\u00a0 Park farther away from your office door or the door to any big box stores you visit and walk the length of the parking lot. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Any time your co-workers take a smoke break, you take a health break and do a lap or two around the building.\u00a0 Before you sit down in the easy chair at home, take a stroll around the block.<\/p>\n

None of these things take very long and none of them will really feel like exercising, but they\u2019ll have a bigger impact than you might imagine. Every couple of weeks, you can add a little bit more to your slowly budding routine.<\/p>\n

Before you know it, you\u2019ll be spending twenty or thirty minutes a day doing low intensity exercises and that will make a tremendous difference to your overall level of health!\u00a0 Start today, try it for yourself and see.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be amazed at the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"Not long ago, a landmark study declared that \u201cSitting is the New Smoking!\u201d\u00a0 While the reality isn\u2019t quite as bad as the study made it sound, it\u2019s no secret that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}