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Great News For Employees: Walking Reverses Effects Of Long Office Hours!

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30-09-2014 | 05:44

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Walking may never become as trendy as CrossFit, as sexy as mud runs or as ego-boosting as Ironman races but for fitness experts who stress daily movement over workouts and an active lifestyle over weekends of warrior games, walking is a super star.

For author and scientist Katy Bowman, walking is a biological imperative like eating.

In her book, "Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement," she suggests there are movement nutrients, just like dietary nutrients, that the body needs. "Walking is a superfood. It's the defining movement of a human," said Bowman, a biomechanist based in Ventura, California.

"It's a lot easier to get movement than it is to get exercise."

Researchers say emerging evidence suggests that combined physical activity and inactivity may be more important for chronic disease risk than physical activity alone. Leslie Sansone, creator of the "Walk at Home: Mix & Match Walk Blasters" DVD, said too many people believe that spending grueling hours at the gym is the only way to fitness.

She added that a small study of non-obese men published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise by scientists at Indiana University suggests that three five-minute walks done throughout three hours of prolonged sitting reverses the harmful effects of prolonged sitting on arteries in the legs. Three miles (5 kilometers) per hour is a good beginning, gradually working to 4 miles per hour, she said about walking.

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