sedentary
adjective
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Sedentary comes from Latin sedēre, meaning "to sit." Other descendants of sedēre include dissident, insidious, preside, reside, and subsidy. Sedēre is also the base of the rare sedens, a noun meaning "a person who remains a resident of the place or region of his or her birth."
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Sarah Klein, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
More research is needed—some of which is already underway—on whether simply being less sedentary improves sleep, as well as whether shorter or less frequent workouts can still have a positive effect.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 27 Mar. 2024
Between 2013 and 2015, for 24 hours a day for seven days total, participants of the new study wore activity trackers on their wrists to monitor daily step count and time spent being sedentary (sitting or lying down while awake).
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
The data found that, for every 1.5 hours of being sedentary, the participants had a 17% higher risk of experiencing heart failure.
—Korin Miller Updated, Verywell Health, 6 Mar. 2024
For elderly individuals that are sedentary, the sudden exertion places stress on the heart that can potentially result in a heart attack.
—Omer Awan, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
The process of storing fat is accelerated and made more efficient by being sedentary, another common trait of the typical obese American.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2024
But evidence for that is lacking, physicians said, and the midlife malaise for which testosterone is being touted as a solution is more likely caused by chronic medical conditions, poor diet or a sedentary lifestyle.
—Michael Scaturro, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
In the Western world, living in a city and spending too many hours sitting down (sedentary lifestyles are the new smoking, scientists say) in front of various screens can limit life longevity.
—Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
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“Sedentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedentary. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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