(HL-의학/건강) Sit Less, Live Longer

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If you are sitting down listening to this Health Report, stand up. Move your legs. Touch your toes, if you can. Do anything but sit. If you cut down on the time you spend sitting, you might live longer. New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might extend your life by two years. The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around.
* toe = 발가락/ anything but ~ = ~만 빼고 모두/ cut down on ~ = ~을 줄이다/ modern lifestyle = 현대 생활 양식 

Just the opposite, says Peter Katzmarzyk. He is a scientist at the University of Louisiana in the southern United States. He says that sitting is ubiquitous in our lives, meaning it is something we do all the time, everywhere.  But, he adds, that does not make sitting good for us. “Sitting is ubiquitous in our lives today. You know, we sit while we’re eating, we sit in the car, we sit while we watch TV. And many of us sit for many hours at work. So on average, Americans report that they sit between four and a half to five hours a day.”
* ubiquitous = 어디에나 있는, 아주 흔한/ on average = 평균적으로, 대체로

Sit Less, Live Longer - WTS.mp3