Breaks to get up and move are healthy: study
new YORK (Reuters Health) – take a rest to walk every 20 minutes instead of sitting during hours helps to reduce the levels of glucose and insulin after eat, said a study in the last sample of the dangers of the long periods of inactivity. Although the results, published in Diabetes Care, not show if these reductions have lasting benefits on health, experience peak levels of glucose and insulin after a meal it is linked to an increased risk of disease cardiac and diabetes. “When we sit, our muscles are disused “ and not are shrinking and helping our body to regulate “ many of the metabolic processes of the body”, said David Dunstan, Professor Baker heart and Diabetes Institute IDI in Melbourne, Australia. Dunstan and his colleagues have reported previously that the most people who watch TV four hours or more to the day are at risk of early death. With this study, experimented with how stay sitting for a long time could affect the response to food intake. After a meal, the blood glucose levels rise, and then there is an increase in insulin, which helps to the cells use sugar as energy or store it. Then, levels start to decline. In people with type 2 diabetes, this process no is done correctly because the body does not respond properly to insulin. After a meal, levels of...
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