Leading an active lifestyle is healthy. In fact leading a sedentary lifestyle could limit the effect of exercise on metabolism of fat. This was found to be true in a study by the University of Texas. So exercise is most effective when it is done frequently and someone lives an active life. Sitting around all day and then doing one vigorous exercise will do little to counteract the effects of sitting around.
Key Takeaways:
- People who work out but also sit for long hours — active couch potatoes, you might say — may often share the same elevated risks for disease and early death as their less active peers.
- Because these correlations were established mostly through epidemiological research based on surveys linking health and lifestyle rather than experiments, the physiological interactions between inactivity and exercise have remained largely unknown.
- But a study published last month in The American Journal of Physiology — Endocrinology and Metabolism is one of the first to directly compare exercisers who also sit extensively with those who are more active generally.
“In essence, inactivity altered the men’s physiology in ways that apparently prevented exercise from improving the metabolism of fat.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/well/move/keep-it-moving.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0