{"id":5149,"date":"2023-03-14T05:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2023-03-14T05:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:01:48","slug":"5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/","title":{"rendered":"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
Whole Family Living<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new study has looked into ways to improve blood pressure and sugar levels, and they\u2019ve found that taking a short, leisurely stroll around the office, your home, or wherever you work, every 30-minutes may help to improve these levels.<\/p>\n

People that sit at their desk all day, even if they get a lot of exercise, can still suffer from bad health because of being so stationary throughout particular times in the day. This new study provides new insight into how many movement breaks people that sit at their desks all day should take throughout the day so that they can help lessen the adverse effects of all those hours sitting still.<\/p>\n

According to the study, every five minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll through the office or around the work area, may already substantially lessen both blood pressure and blood sugar. The study, which was published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise<\/a>, also shared that \u2018moving as little as one minute every hour can still help lower your blood sugar.\u2019<\/p>\n

Senior study author and scientist at the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health<\/a> at Columbia University in New York City, Keith Diaz, PhD, explained, \u201cRegular exercise should remain a top priority for anyone looking to improve and maintain their health. But one cannot simply exercise in the morning and check it off their list. More and more research is showing that how you spend the rest of your day also matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Any Break is Good, Once Every 30 Minutes Is Best<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For the study, scientists asked 11 healthy volunteers to go through five simulated work days in their lab. They were made to stay seated all day, aside from short walking breaks on a treadmill, as well as an occasional trip to the bathroom. Participants were allowed to type on a laptop, read and use their phones when they wanted to. They were also given meals during this time.<\/p>\n

During all five days that the volunteers went to the lab, they were randomly assigned to a different schedule of walking breaks, which included either five minutes every 30 or 60 minutes, one minute every 30 or 60 minutes, or no walking at all.<\/p>\n

When compared to those that were made to sit all day without taking any walking breaks, the people that spent five minutes on the treadmill every half-hour had a \u201858 percent reduction in blood sugar spikes after large meals.\u2019 Meanwhile, for those that took shorter, less frequent movement breaks, there didn\u2019t seem to be any impact on their blood sugar.<\/p>\n

Diaz explained, \u201cWhen our muscles aren\u2019t used after hours and hours of sitting, they don\u2019t fully help out to regulate blood sugar levels. So we think that regular short walks or \u2018activity snacks\u2019 help to activate the muscles to serve as better blood sugar regulators.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Intermittent Walking Breaks Helps Blood Pressure Too<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The study also found that every type of walking break helped to lower the participants\u2019 blood pressure by at least 4 to 5 points. Diaz explained that this could have been due to how seated postures restrict blood flow in the legs over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegular short walks can help prevent the changes in blood pressure by regularly restoring blood flow to the legs, and it appears that relatively infrequent and short walks are enough to offset this harmful effect of sitting,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Diaz added.<\/p>\n

However, the researchers also note that one major limitation of the study was that since it was so small in size, it make it impossible to see \u2018significant differences in the outcomes based on the frequency or duration of the walking breaks throughout the day.\u2019 In addition, the results from this study only looked at light-intensity walking, which meant that they didn\u2019t get to see what the results may have been if they had people do \u2018moderate-to-vigorous-intensity movement breaks\u2019 throughout the day instead.<\/p>\n

Associate professor and chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the West Virginia University School of Public Health<\/a> in Morgantown, Bethany Barone Gibbs, PhD, said \u201cThe \u2018exercise snack\u2019 here was quite slow walking, only 2 miles per hour and well below a brisk level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibbs, who wasn\u2019t part of the study, also shared \u201cThis would be very slow strolling or the intensity levels of doing some light household chores rather than more intense physical activity we would consider to be moderate or vigorous intensity and count toward weekly physical activity goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

5-Minute Walks Are Better Than Nothing <\/strong><\/h3>\n

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a>, \u2018most adults need at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, as well as two days of muscle-building workouts\u2019 for optimal health. However, they also note that this can be difficult to achieve. Gibbs added that this was even harder to achieve when stay-at-home orders forced gyms and other workout facilities were forced to close during the COVID-19 global pandemic.<\/p>\n

But even if you don\u2019t necessarily have a good exercise routine in your life, exercise researcher from the University of Sydney, Australia, Matthew Ahmadi, PhD, explained that adding in \u201cexercise snacks\u201d to your workdays can still help improve your health. Mr. Ahmadi was not part of the study either.<\/p>\n

He shared, \u201cEven light walking lasting a few minutes at a time to break up sedentary time can be effective in improving our metabolic health, which will lead to better overall health and lower disease risk.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> So the bottom line is any movement is still going to be better than no movement at all.<\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study has looked into ways to improve blood pressure and sugar levels, and they\u2019ve found that taking a short, leisurely stroll around the office, your home, or wherever you work, every 30-minutes may help to improve these levels. People that sit at their desk all day, even if they get a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[235,132,16,1536],"yoast_head":"\n5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every 5 minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll may already lessen blood pressure & sugar.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every 5 minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll may already lessen blood pressure & sugar.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Health News Central\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/desk.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"730\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"382\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"katcruz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"katcruz\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"katcruz\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38b633af813eb345a6ed540cc63d452f\"},\"headline\":\"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\"},\"wordCount\":954,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Blood Pressure\",\"Blood sugar\",\"health\",\"stroll\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Health\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\",\"name\":\"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"Every 5 minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll may already lessen blood pressure & sugar.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/\",\"name\":\"Health News Central\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Health News Central\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-06-at-6.14.51-AM.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-06-at-6.14.51-AM.png\",\"width\":1396,\"height\":484,\"caption\":\"Health News Central\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38b633af813eb345a6ed540cc63d452f\",\"name\":\"katcruz\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85d53048a5155d19ec8889113281bc78?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85d53048a5155d19ec8889113281bc78?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"katcruz\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/author\/katcruz\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day","description":"Every 5 minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll may already lessen blood pressure & sugar.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day","og_description":"Every 5 minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll may already lessen blood pressure & sugar.","og_url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/","og_site_name":"Health News Central","article_published_time":"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":730,"height":382,"url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/desk.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"katcruz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"katcruz","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/"},"author":{"name":"katcruz","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38b633af813eb345a6ed540cc63d452f"},"headline":"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day","datePublished":"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/"},"wordCount":954,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["Blood Pressure","Blood sugar","health","stroll"],"articleSection":["Health"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/","url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/","name":"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-14T05:01:48+00:00","description":"Every 5 minutes every half-hour of either getting up and moving around, or taking a short stroll may already lessen blood pressure & sugar.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/5-minute-strolls-in-30-minute-intervals-may-help-lessen-disease-risks-from-sitting-at-your-desk-all-day\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"5-Minute Strolls In 30-Minute Intervals May Help Lessen Disease Risks From Sitting At Your Desk All Day"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/","name":"Health News Central","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#organization","name":"Health News Central","url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-06-at-6.14.51-AM.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-06-at-6.14.51-AM.png","width":1396,"height":484,"caption":"Health News Central"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/person\/38b633af813eb345a6ed540cc63d452f","name":"katcruz","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85d53048a5155d19ec8889113281bc78?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85d53048a5155d19ec8889113281bc78?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"katcruz"},"url":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/author\/katcruz\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnewscentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}