{"id":222431,"date":"2022-01-12T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/if-you-have-had-cancer-maybe-you-should-not-spend-too-much-time-sitting\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:11:15","slug":"if-you-have-had-cancer-maybe-you-should-not-spend-too-much-time-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/if-you-have-had-cancer-maybe-you-should-not-spend-too-much-time-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"If you have had cancer maybe you should not spend too much time sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Beating cancer is a great feat, but how survivors live their lives afterward also influences their longevity. <\/p>\n<p>A new study shows that people who spend a lot of time sitting and are not physically active <strong>are much more likely to die prematurely from cancer<\/strong> or from any other cause than those that are more active.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The slow killer<\/h2>\n<p>For the study, data was collected from more than 1,500 cancer survivors.  During up to nine years of follow-up, nearly 300 patients died.  Cancer survivors rarely get the message that they need to be physically active. <strong>Part of the reason may be that patients are not motivated or do not feel well, but also because they are not encouraged to be active<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The link was particularly concerning because the researchers found that up to a third of cancer survivors did not exercise and sat for more than six hours a day. <strong>Only about a third got the recommended 150 hours of exercise a week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<p>There is a need for future research on the causal relationships between sedentary behavior, physical activity, and survival after cancer, as well as the biological mechanisms that operate these relationships.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 -->\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beating cancer is a great feat, but how survivors live their lives afterward also influences their longevity. A new study shows that people who spend a lot of time sitting and are not physically active are much more likely to die prematurely from cancer or from any other cause than those that are more active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":222432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/935890\/too-much-sitting-could\/840_560.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}