inactivity

  1. SNT Gatchaman

    Trial Report Cardiovascular deconditioning produced by 20 hours of bedrest with head-down tilt −5° in middle-aged healthy men, 1985, Gaffney et al.

    Cardiovascular deconditioning produced by 20 hours of bedrest with head-down tilt −5° in middle-aged healthy men Gaffney; Nixon; Karlsson; Campbell; Dowdey; Blomqvist Cardiovascular deconditioning after prolonged bedrest has been attributed to inactivity. To examine the role of the altered...
  2. Sasha

    The dangers of sitting?

    Two or three years ago I seem to remember a lot of news stories about how sitting (or presumably lying) still for ages at a stretch was an independent risk factor for a shedload of diseases, regardless of whether you exercised even strenuously at some point in the day. The advice was (I think)...
  3. leokitten

    Two new studies on physical inactivity and its effect on metabolic function

    Two interesting new studies on how inactivity can have drastic metabolic consequences. Take a Vacation From Exercise? Your Body May Not Thank You This is by no means a suggestion that PWME should be more active, of course adaptive pacing is the best way to go! It just highlights one of the...
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