{"id":8025,"date":"2024-11-03T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suprastratum.com\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T13:15:12","slug":"standing-solution-to-sedentary-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suprastratum.com\/en\/2024\/11\/03\/standing-solution-to-sedentary-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"STANDING: A SOLUTION TO THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article examines whether standing is an affordable and feasible solution to compensate for the harmful health effects of excessive sitting.
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\nFor decades, interest in the cardiometabolic risks of prolonged sedentary lifestyles has overshadowed the health implications of perhaps the biggest behavioural change in the transition from hunter-gatherers to modern humans: the remarkable increase in time spent standing.<\/p>\n

For example, there is evidence to suggest that in modern western society adults spend more than twice as much time standing and less time walking<\/a>, compared to typical hunter-gatherers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Orthostasis\"<\/p>\n

There may be many differences between populations that may complicate the associations and limit the conclusions we can draw, but the data suggest that globally, adults may have a different composition of physical behaviours depending on whether they live in agricultural, industrial or informational communities.<\/p>\n

A large proportion of today's adults spend a significant part of their day standing up, with recent data from international cohorts showing<\/a> that daily standing accounts for a staggering 3.1-4.6 hours\/day or about 19%-29% of the total time in the waking state<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While standing is very often presented as an affordable and feasible solution to offset the harmful health effects of excessive sedentary lifestyles, the effects of standing on cardiometabolic health have not been well researched.<\/p>\n

IS STANDING A SOLUTION TO THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Previous studies on the cardiometabolic effects of prolonged standing have given conflicting<\/a> outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, recent advances in measurement techniques, such as accelerometers worn on the thighs and wrists, now provide researchers with the measurement accuracy needed to examine the cardiometabolic health effects of standing.<\/p>\n

\"Orthostasis\"<\/p>\n

For example, recent data on more than 83,000 adults wearing wrist accelerometers<\/a>, showed that each additional 30 min\/day of standing was associated with a 11% higher risk of orthostatic circulatory disease, while no beneficial or harmful associations were found for the risk of major cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease and stroke). In addition, replacement of physical activity with standing was found to be associated with worse cardiometabolic profiles in a recent pooled analysis of seven cohorts using thigh accelerometry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problem with standing is that it can have positive effects, but it also has many negative effects:<\/p>\n