Sentence examples for sedentary living from inspiring English sources
sedentary -- Living in a fixed location, as with most plants, tunicates, sponges, etc. Contrast with motile.
The well-established risk factors for heart disease remain intact: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, abdominal obesity and sedentary living.
As part of a book I've been writing about the beneficial effects of more cycling, I spoke to a number of public health experts about the problem of sedentary living.
And every so often, when all four of his kids, who range in age from 10 to 24, are home, he rouses them from their television programs or iPods and summons them outside for the Oz Family Olympics, which can entail tennis, wind sprints, competitive stair climbing: anything to push back against the forces of, and tropism toward, sedentary living.
Today, however, the majority of Badu are either semi-nomadic, staying in villages in winter but moving to grazing areas with their herds in spring and summer, or sedentary, living year-round in villages and keeping small herds.
5 Increasing numbers of communities worldwide are becoming favorable to the development of obesity or overweight as a result of dietary changes and sedentary living.
Star college athletes who have become sedentary live no longer than anyone else, Dr. Paffenbarger has found.
Italians also tend to lead less sedentary lives.
Office workers would benefit immensely from a mile a day to combat our increasingly sedentary lives.
Saudi women live sedentary lives and spend little time outside the home.
His purpose, he said, was to call attention to the growing sedentary lives of American children.
