Keep It Moving

Sean Sullivan 
Mr.Ippolito 
Current Event Review 
12/11/16

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/well/move/keep-it-moving.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

Reynolds, Gretchen. "Keep It Moving." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Dec. 2016. Web. 11 Dec. 2016.

In this article titled "Keep It Moving," by Gretchen Reynolds, she expresses the needs for exercise and the negative repercussions sitting and inactivity can have on a persons health. Physical inactivity has been correlated with six percent of all heart disease cases across the world and eleven percent of premature deaths in the United States. Physical activity is one of the factors that contributes to cancer and a way to help suppress the growth of cancerous tumors s by exercising. The American Journal of of Physiology — Endocrinology and Metabolism, was one of the first organizations to compare the differences from those whom are more active and those who sit for extended periods of time and still exercise. People who sit for long periods of time but do one day of intense exercise tend to not counter the affects long sitting may have on a person. Conversely walking frequently and working out regularly does suppress the risks. Researchers at the university of Texas at Austin asked seven healthy men to wear monitors and spend four days in a row being active and four days in a row being sedentary. On the active days the subjects sat on average for eight hours, and on the sedentary days they sat for approximately fourteen hours. On the fourth day they ran for about an hour and the following morning they had a high sugary breakfast. In their earlier studies they concluded that this workout led to significant drop in triglycerides, fats associated with heart disease that enter the bloodstream after meals. When the men were active and running their activity brought down the harmful risks they endured by consuming such a meal. However on their sedentary day the running did not bring down the high levels of triglycerides. ' “So much sitting seems to have made the men’s bodies exercise-resistant,” ' Coyle says, it was concluded that inactivity altered the men's metabolism that prevented it from breaking down fat. 

This article connects to society because in today's world most of our time is spent sitting. Students sit for approximately 8 hours a day in very uncomfortable and not supportive seats. Even with recess and physical education to try to counter the harm they are doing to their bodies, we now know that it does nothing. The same goes for other professions where men and woman sit for long periods of time. Even those that exercise daily can now know that it doesn't matter as long as their not being proactive. Hopefully this will force people to consider changes in society's daily routine sponsoring more active activities and getting students to move more. 

This article was very well written. It got right to the point not leaving a lot of un-answered questions. However the study that they conducted, doesnt seem to be adequate to me. They only tested 7 already fit men, instead of woman and people of different physiques. I think they should test men woman and adolescents of all different fitness' to see how the triglyceride levels react to the different genders and age groups.