Science news articles about 'sedentary activities'

... obesity rates continue to increase worldwide; sedentary activities such as seated game-playing may contribute ... seated game, 98 percent more playing active bowling and 451 percent more during the action ...

... morbidly obese participants in the study were markedly sedentary. On average, 23 hours and 51.6 ... study spent the entire monitoring period in sedentary activity. Obesity contributes to five of the top ...

... Journal of Preventive Medicine, indicates that kids who are active at age 5 end up with less fat ... Avoid long periods -- more than 60 minutes -- of sedentary activity, insist that schools provide morning ...

... Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary activities for people of all ages. "I think ... replicate the intensity of some real-life physical activities, though dance video games are effective ...

The combination of a car-friendly culture and popular sedentary activities like watching TV or playing video games make it unsurprising that at least 25 per cent of ...

... week and decreased the amount of time they spent in sedentary activities, like watching TV and videos ... Sports Medicine. "Anything we can do to increase activity level is going to improve health because ...

... girls, but there were no significant differences in time spent on other sedentary behaviors. "Sedentary activity was not significantly related to systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure ...