Moving a lot is good for health, but is it really so bad to move a little? At the request of Dr. Bente Klarlund Pedersen (Bente Klar-lund Pedersen) from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the subjects reduced their physical activity from 6000 steps to 1400 per day for three weeks (on average a person takes from 2 to 7,5 thousand steps per day) .
Moving a lot is good for health, but is it really so bad to move a little? At the request of Dr. Bente Klarlund Pedersen (Bente Klar-lund Pedersen) from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the subjects reduced their physical activity from 6000 steps to 1400 per day for three weeks (on average a person takes from 2 to 7,5 thousand steps per day) . Even two weeks of reduced activity was enough for clinical tests to reveal the retention of fat and glucose in the blood of volunteers, which means a risk of developing diabetes and vascular disease.