A study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise conducted by scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks.
That is a very shocking statistic.
Similar research actually dates back to 1953, when British researchers found that (sitting) bus drivers were twice as likely to die of heart attacks as (standing) trolley operators.
It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how well you eat. If you sit most of the day, your risk of leaving this world clutching your chest—whether you’re a man or women—as much as doubles.
This is going to cause a re-thinking in desk height. I’m going to push my chair back and kneel on a pillow. But then I’ll probably debelop knee joint problems.
Researchers don’t know why but suspect an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase (LPL), which breaks down fat in the bloodstream and turns it into energy. Researchers found that standing rats have ten times more of the stuff coursing through their bodies than laying rats. It doesn’t matter how fit the rats are; when they leave their feet, their LPL levels plummet. It is believed the same happens in humans.
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