Adherence
Interrupting prolonged sitting with frequent stand-up transitions significantly improves cardio-metabolic biomarkers (BMI, waist circumference, HDL, triglycerides, and glucose) compared to accumulating the same total sitting time in long, uninterrupted bouts.
If you must sit, do not sit for more than 30 minutes at a time. Stand up and move briefly (sit-stand transitions) as often as possible. This pattern of interrupting sitting is more beneficial for your waistline, cholesterol, and blood sugar than simply having the same total amount of sitting time but doing it in long, uninterrupted blocks.
Sitting accumulation patterns of frequently interrupted sitting (compared to patterns with relatively more prolonged sitting) were significantly beneficially associated with BMI, waist circumference, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, PLG, and with FPG.
Why this rating
High-quality objective measurement (activPAL) in a large cross-sectional cohort, though causality is observational.
Source
Associations of sitting accumulation patterns with cardio-metabolic risk biomarkers in Australian adults
John Bellettiere et al. · PLoS ONE · 2017
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