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A recent study of nearly 50,000 coronavirus patients found that those who were consistently inactive were at greater risk of death due to the virus than those who engaged in exercise. The study, which relied on the Exercise Vital Sign measurement developed by Kaiser Permanente Southern California, found that even those who were active on an inconsistent basis were at lower odds for severe COVID-19 compared to those who were inactive. This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity, Robert E. Sallis, M.D., a family and sports medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, said, in a news release posted to EurekAlert.org. Kaiser Permanente’s motivation is to keep people healthy, and this study truly shows how important that is during this pandemic and
even if you exercise, spending too much time on your tush
still takes a major toll on your heart. [1]
Let me be specific: you can’t just exercise a couple of times a week and expect to make up for 5 straight days of sitting, according to the American Heart Association (AHA) panel.
Just How Big of a Problem is Sitting?
Deborah Rohm Young, chair of the AHA panel that wrote the new advisory, said:
“Based on existing evidence, we found that U.S. adults are sedentary for about six to eight hours a day.”
The older people get, the more time they’re likely to spend sitting. Young said: