{"id":206,"date":"2014-06-17T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/?p=206"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:52:01","slug":"being-sedentary-increases-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/2014\/06\/17\/being-sedentary-increases-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Being sedentary increases cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting little piece that discusses exercise, sedentary lifestyle, and the risk of cancer&#8230;<!--more--> (see &#8211; \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><a title=\"Sitting down for an extra two hours increases the risk of some cancers by 10%\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2659262\/Sitting-extra-two-hours-increases-risk-cancers-10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sitting down for an extra two hours increases the risk of some cancers by 10%<\/a>).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In a nutshell, an analysis of 43 studies, including over 4 million participants, as well as cancer patients, showed that DESPITE EXERCISE, every additional 2 hours of sitting can increase the risk of cancer up to 10%.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The authors warn that just because you exercise regularly, don&#8217;t think that you are protected, rather, MOVE around, like our ancestors moved around before computers and TV!<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;biology&#8221; behind this is that sitting in front of the television is associated with other bad behaviors related to obesity and nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting little piece that discusses exercise, sedentary lifestyle, and the risk of cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,2,1],"tags":[119,118],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-nutrition","category-prevention","category-statistics-epidemiology","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer-risk","tag-sedentary"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}