March 26, 2014 fo r ila nò (Obstruer Page 5 Study Finds Benefits of Light Exercise Key is offsetting our sedentary ways A new study looking at activity trends and health outcomes for adults found that you don’t need to kill yourself by running 10 miles a day to gain health benefits - you merely need to log more minutes of light physical activity than of sedentary behavior. And the bar is pretty low for what consti­ tutes light physical ac­ tivity, researchers say. It can mean sauntering through a mall window­ shopping instead of or­ dering online, fishing along a riverbank, or ballroom dancing. V In other words, cast­ ing a spinner or spin­ ning on the dance floor can help offset our sed­ entary ways. The problem , the authors say, is that nearly half of Ameri- B ra d le y C a rd in a l cans surveyed did not engage in a sufficient amount of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (more than 150 minutes a week) and, in fact, spent more time in sedentary mode than even doing light physical activity. “That’s actually rather frightening,” said Bradley Cardinal, co-director of the Sport and Exercise Psychol­ ogy Program at Oregon State University and co-author on the study. “About half of the people in this country are incredibly sedentary - basically, couch potatoes. And that can have some very negative effects on one’s health.” The study looked at the activity patterns of more than 5,500 adults. Participants wore accelerometers record- ing movements that could be broken down by the minute, and the researchers found that 47 percent of Americans engaged in less than 150 minutes a week of moderate-to- vigorous physical activity and, perhaps more impor­ tantly, logged fewer minutes of light physical activity than of sedentary behavior. They found that when the balance was on the positive side - adults spent more time moving than sitting - there was a strong association with favorable levels of triglyc- erides and insulin. It is preferable to get at least 30 minutes a day of moderate-to- vigorous physical activity in each day, but we now know that if you sit for the remainder of the day after getting this dose o f exercise, you might not necessarily be escaping the risk of developing chronic disease, said Paul Loprinzi, a former doctoral student under Cardinal in OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences. 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