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Health
Cut Your Cholesterol With Corn Oil
Cooking with corn oil reduces “bad” LDL cholesterol better than cooking with olive oil (10.9% vs. 3.5%), according to the Journal of Clinical Lipidology.
Why? Because corn oil contains 4 times more cholesterol- blocking plant sterols!
The Two-Minute Solution To Sitting All Day
Having a desk job doesn’t have to slowly kill you. Espe- cially with this fast trick.
It’s no secret that being sedentary for long periods of time is unhealthy.
In fact, a study concluded that the amount of hours someone sits in a day — re- gardless of regular exercise — is associated with a higher risk of heart disease, dia- betes, cancer and even death.
And now, new research published in the Clinical Journal of the American So- ciety of Nephrology (CJASN) states that walking for just two minutes out of each waking hour may coun- teract these health risks.
Keep In Mind:
While the ideal replace- ment for sitting is increasing the amount of moderate or vigorous intensity activities — such as jogging, biking, lifting weights or anything that falls under the “working out” category — these scien- tists were hoping to find the next best solution. And that’s because nearly 80% of Americans do not meet the recommended amount of ex- ercise, which is 2.5 hours of a moderate or vigorous activ- ity per week.
Here’s what they discov- ered — swapping just two minutes of sitting each hour for two minutes of a light in-
tensity activity each hour can result in a 33% lower risk of dying.
Srinivasan Beddhu, MD, professor at the Uni- versity of Utah School of Medicine explains that even short walks can have a posi- tive impact on well-being. “Assuming someone is awake for 16 hours a day, two minutes each hour will add up to 3.7 hours per week of light intensity activity in- stead of being sedentary,” he says. “As shown in the study, a 2.5 MET (Metabolic Equiv- alent of Task) activity, such as a casual walk, for one to five minutes per hour could result in additional energy expenditure of 200 to 1000
kcal per week. It was fasci- nating to see the results be- cause the current national focus is on moderate or vig- orous activity. To see that light activity had an associa- tion with lower mortality is intriguing.”
For optimum benefits, Beddhu strongly advises less time in the sitting or horizontal positions. “We are not advocating for just a total of two minutes per hour of light activity,” he adds. “It should be noted that it is two minutes per hour more of light activity. If a person is already doing 10 minutes per hour of light activity, going to 12 minutes may decrease their mortality risk.”
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