3. A session or term, as of a legislature or court. 4. a. An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation. b. The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch. adj. 1. Incubating a nest of eggs: a sitting hen. 2. Occupying an official position; ...
Eligible individuals were mailed an invitation to participate, an information leaflet, the study questionnaire, a consent form (including consent for long-term follow-up through linkage of their data to data held in a variety of population databases), and a prepaid reply envelope. Participants ...
Background: Time spent sitting is distinctly different from accumulating too little physical activity and may have independent deleterious effects. Few studies have examined the association between sitting time and site-specific cancer incidence. Methods: Among 69,260 men and 77,462 women who were can...
Arciero PJ, Smith DL, Calles-Escandon J (1998) Effects of short-term inactivity on glucose tolerance, energy expenditure, and blood flow in trained subjects. J Appl Physiol (1985) 84(4): 1365–1373. Arem H, Chlebowski R, Stefanick ML, Anderson G, Wactawski-Wende J, Sims S, Gunter ...
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The term 坐月子 (zuo yue zi) or literally translated to “Sitting The Moon” means to allow postpartum mom to do nothing but to “sit” (rest) recover for one month after delivery. This practice has been around for thousands of years and it is still being practiced by most Chinese. It...
All PainScience.com updates are logged to show a long term commitment to quality, accuracy, and currency. more Jun 4, 2024 — Science update. After flip-flopping repeatedly over the years on the question of whether or not sedentariness is a threat to backs, I have given up and shifted...
People are designed to work and socialise while on their legs and to sit in order to rest; the default position for people is to be up and moving. Is it a surprise that modern people who default to sitting (e.g. ‘take a seat’) experience negative physical, medical and psychological ...
Conclusions This cohort study found that, among 1194 persons at high risk for KOA followed up for up to 10 years, long-term strenuous physical activity participation was not associated with increased odds of incident radiographic KOA. Findings suggest that older adults at high risk for KOA may ...