Study: Sitting for a long period is linked to diabetes

Study confirmed that people who sit without movement for hours a day, may be more susceptible to diabetes, compared with those who are moving for longer periods.

The researchers presented devices for measuring acceleration for about two thousand people to monitor their movements during waking hours for about a week.

After 5 years, and compared with people who sit for less than six hours since the beginning of the study, the people who sit without movement for more than ten hours a day, their risk of developing diabetes increased by four times.

Compared with people who sit for less than six hours a day, people who sit without movement for more than ten hours a day were more susceptible to disruption in blood sugar, which often develops into diabetes.Barron said Bethany Gibbs, who led the team of researchers, a researcher in the field of health and physical activity at the University of Pittsburgh, "we began to believe that the large number of sitting is different from lack of exercise."

She added: "The person who is going to probably half an hour a day sitting without movement for 15 hours at work and in transport and at home, that person probably is classified as physically active, but many also sit."

She continued, "On the other hand it may not sport a cleaner never practiced, but he may spend most of his day, a mild actively moving. This person is not physically active, but not many sit down."

In the research, which was published in print (Diabitis CAIR), Gibbs and her colleagues discovered a link between inactivity and diabetes among 2027 people aged between 38 and 50 years, with an increase in weight.