Run by physiologist Eric Ravussin, graduate student Madlyn Frisard, and others, the Pennington study recruited 48 sedentary, healthy, somewhat overweight individuals aged 25 to 50.
The bond cash market trading has been somewhat sedentary.
Although Pygmies are traditionally nomadic hunters, the villagers have become somewhat sedentary, continuing to hunt deep in the forest but also growing cassava and yam.
"In the '70s you'd see catalogs listing a lot from that era as just 'Female Correspondence.' " In contrast with Ms. Peyraud's somewhat sedentary life, the collection reveals page-turning dramas and laments about European revolutions and wars.
There is only so much bending and throwing and pushing and running and sweeping like a lunatic that one somewhat sedentary writer can do, before lying down on the ice and staying there starts to look really good.
Associations with other covariates were weaker: for boys, hypertension increased somewhat with sedentary lifestyle, while elevated BP was slightly more prevalent among urban girls and those not attending school.
The daily step count was used to categorize patients according to step count cut-offs for activity levels defined from healthy adults: sedentary <5000, low active 5000 7499, somewhat active 7500 9999, and active ≥10000 [ 34].
The Adélie penguins of Antarctica are pretty sedentary, too.
People working in tech typically have pretty sedentary workdays.
23 Sitting time is a global measure of sedentary behaviour, whereas television viewing is somewhat more specific.
