Take a break from a sedentary lifestyle – getting out of your chair every half hour can help improve blood sugar levels and overall health. This is the suggestion that comes from a Swedish study by the Karolinska Institutet, interesting albeit on a small sample published in the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, according to which even a modest intervention of three minutes every 30 minutes is enough in terms of activity. physical to achieve a small improvement in blood sugar and blood sugar fluctuations.
“Interrupting a sedentary lifestyle – highlights the senior author of the study, Erik Naslund – has positive metabolic benefits, so it is useful not to sit all day, get up and move”.
Naslund suggests that more breaks during sitting times produce more benefits. “For greater benefits, a greater dose of exercise is most likely required,” he adds.
For three weeks, the research team followed 16 obese adults who led sedentary lifestyles or had jobs for which they sat all day. For 10 hours a day, a fitness tracker reminded each participant every 30 minutes to get up and move.
During three-minute bouts of activity, the people involved in the study performed low to moderate intensity activities, such as walking or climbing stairs. The researchers compared those who were active with a group that did not take breaks. It was found that the former had lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels and lower blood sugar levels, as well as fewer spikes and dips in blood sugar. Activity breaks, however, did not improve overall glucose tolerance for which they obviously weren’t enough. (HANDLE).
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