Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Basal Metabolic Rate, Thermogenesis, Health Promotion
19 Nov 2018
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Neat (nonexercise activity thermogenesis) accounts for a large part of our daily activity (any movement not related to sports-like exercise) and isn"t generally talked about enough in health promotion. The largest daily energy expenditure is attributable to neat (since the thermic amount of food and basal metabolic rate generally doesn"t change. ) How to reduce your risk: stand up, break up sedentary time, sit less. Increase your incidental physical activity (standing, stepping, walking: move more, more often, we should still get the recommended guidelines of mvpa each day. Tremblay et al. (2010: two individuals with the same total amount of sedentary time can have very different behavioural patterns. It is ideal to break up your sedentary time by regularly and frequently breaking it up with short bouts of movement: a prolonger engages in persistent sedentary time, while a breaker interrupts their sedentary time. It has been shown that the breaker is associated with much greater health benefits.
