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Reducing or breaking up sedentary behavior may benefit body composition and markers of cardiometabolic risk.
If you have a desk job, try to break up long periods of sitting with short movement breaks. This pattern change may help improve body composition and cardiometabolic markers, even if you cannot eliminate sitting entirely.
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Reducing or breaking up sedentary behaviour may benefit body composition and markers of cardiometabolic risk.
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The paper states the certainty of evidence is 'low to very low'.
Source
Sedentary behaviour and health in adults: an overview of systematic reviews
Travis J. Saunders et al. · Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism · 2020
DOI 10.1139/apnm-2020-0272
Meta-analysis · 18 studiesCited 461×
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