Sentence examples for sedentary about from inspiring English sources

There is nothing sedentary about their minds.

They tend to report lower levels of physical activity than Cluster 1 and relative to the whole population, a higher proportion report that they are sedentary about half of the time, work with household chores 1 2 h per week, and exercise alternatively <1 h per week or 1 3 h per week.

Typical for them is an over-representation of those who report drinking alcohol but not binge drinking, those walking/cycling 20 40 min daily and those who are sedentary about half of the time or less than half the time during their daily activities.

Eastern Archaic peoples were becoming increasingly sedentary by about 4000 3000 bp.

Overall, more than £760m a year was calculated to be spent by the NHS across the UK on the five diseases as a result of sedentary behaviour – about 1.2% of its total expenditure on those diseases.

However, there is some evidence that gender differences may exist in this regard; in the systematic review by Pearson et al. [ 34] of dietary intake and sedentary behavior, about half of those studies that examined gender differences observed them.

The single items Physical recreation (asking about 'organised sport') and Sedentary recreation (asking about 'electronic games' and 'TV') revealed different patterns (Fig. 2).

Although accelerometers provide information about sedentary time, they cannot provide contextual information about what the person is doing whilst sedentary.

On average, sedentary people gained about 1.6 years of life expectancy from becoming active later in life.

Sedentary people lose about 5percentt of the elasticity of their heart every decade, but studies have found that exercise can diminish many of the negative effects.

"There was nothing charming to me about sedentary old people, rocking chairs, hot houses with Victorian trappings," he says.