Get Up And Do Something: Long, slow walks may beat shorter, higher intensity runs

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Long, slow walks may beat shorter, higher intensity runs Feb 17th 2013, 11:03 Forget about busting your buns on the treadmill. A small new study suggests that you'll be healthier if you spend your time taking long, slow walks – and standing instead of sitting whenever possible. For those who detest working up a sweat at the gym this might sound too good to be true. But researchers have found that it may be more important to reduce your hours sitting than it is to exercise vigorously, according to the study published in PLOS ONE. In fact, when volunteers spent two hours standing and four hours walking each day they had healthier insulin levels and lower triglycerides than when they spent an hour a day at the gym cycling for all they were worth, Norwegian researchers found. And that was true even though the volunteers burned nearly the same amount of calories whether they were cycling or slow walking: The main difference was in the number of hours spent sitting.

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