And an important paragraph: “Hadza men and women spent nearly 10 hours every day resting, almost identical to the numbers for people in the US, Netherlands and Australia. The number of breaks was similar across populations as well. Hadza adults switched from resting to active postures like standing or walking roughly 50 times per day, on par with data from Europeans. Still, Hadza blood profiles and blood pressures showed they were remarkably healthy, with low levels of triglycerides and other markers of heart disease. The Hadza were much healthier than their desk-bound counterparts in industrialised countries, but not because they rested less or got up to stretch their legs more often.”
> but not because they rested less or got up to stretch their legs more often
There is so many more things that are very different between them and industrialized counterparts, I feel this is at best a stretch that maybe it's all the squattings doing.
Seems the diet, sunlight exposure, environment, social habits, exercise habits, it's all different.
I get the feeling that is less about the sitting and more about the activity you are doing outside of the sitting? Perhaps working out >30mins a day is just healthy for you and its not so much the sitting but the fact that people are sitting and not doing any type of physical activity throughout the day.
This is maybe not life changing, but I swapped about 10 years ago my office chair for a gym ball.
My back feels much better (I like to think that this is because of that). My coworkers are less happy because when I start bouncing during a video call they get sea sick :)
> My coworkers are less happy because when I start bouncing during a video call they get sea sick :)
That’s priceless! :) Jokes aside, do you hold the laptop or camera? I don’t get why they get sea sick. When I look at a screen and see the camera moving vertically (up and down) while the person isn’t, I kinda feel a little bit like motion sickness (I don’t really have motion sickness otherwise). But if a person is moving vertically up and down but the camera level is still, I’m fine.
> All we wanted to do was sit. Onawasi seemed to feel the same way. He had spent the morning hunting, and certainly deserved the chair more than we did.
This implies a morning hunting or standing next to the coffee machine does not make a difference. Only the way they sit after that.
Sadly paywalled and can no longer access archive. I am genuinely interested if this is just another doom piece without any science. We just heard the other day that a brisk 21min walk can counteract the effects of sitting. Heck what about those of us that switch between standing and sitting?
Prior evidence suggests that sedentary behaviour increases blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction.
They studied a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania and found that despite having similar patterns of sedentary behaviour, their blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction were much lower than those in industrialized nations. The authors posit that one reason for this is that sedentary behaviour in this group of individuals does not involve furniture -- rather, it usually involves a "deep squat", and the authors show that in this position the muscles are much more engaged than when someone sits in a chair.
This is consistent with evidence that breaking up periods of sitting with movement is good for you.
Their open-access paper talks about some evolutionary context for this hypothesis [1].
[+] [-] kiwicopple|2 years ago|reply
tldr: they squat
And an important paragraph: “Hadza men and women spent nearly 10 hours every day resting, almost identical to the numbers for people in the US, Netherlands and Australia. The number of breaks was similar across populations as well. Hadza adults switched from resting to active postures like standing or walking roughly 50 times per day, on par with data from Europeans. Still, Hadza blood profiles and blood pressures showed they were remarkably healthy, with low levels of triglycerides and other markers of heart disease. The Hadza were much healthier than their desk-bound counterparts in industrialised countries, but not because they rested less or got up to stretch their legs more often.”
[+] [-] didibus|2 years ago|reply
There is so many more things that are very different between them and industrialized counterparts, I feel this is at best a stretch that maybe it's all the squattings doing.
Seems the diet, sunlight exposure, environment, social habits, exercise habits, it's all different.
[+] [-] infecto|2 years ago|reply
I get the feeling that is less about the sitting and more about the activity you are doing outside of the sitting? Perhaps working out >30mins a day is just healthy for you and its not so much the sitting but the fact that people are sitting and not doing any type of physical activity throughout the day.
[+] [-] BrandoElFollito|2 years ago|reply
My back feels much better (I like to think that this is because of that). My coworkers are less happy because when I start bouncing during a video call they get sea sick :)
[+] [-] AnonC|2 years ago|reply
That’s priceless! :) Jokes aside, do you hold the laptop or camera? I don’t get why they get sea sick. When I look at a screen and see the camera moving vertically (up and down) while the person isn’t, I kinda feel a little bit like motion sickness (I don’t really have motion sickness otherwise). But if a person is moving vertically up and down but the camera level is still, I’m fine.
[+] [-] Gys|2 years ago|reply
This implies a morning hunting or standing next to the coffee machine does not make a difference. Only the way they sit after that.
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They studied a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania and found that despite having similar patterns of sedentary behaviour, their blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction were much lower than those in industrialized nations. The authors posit that one reason for this is that sedentary behaviour in this group of individuals does not involve furniture -- rather, it usually involves a "deep squat", and the authors show that in this position the muscles are much more engaged than when someone sits in a chair.
This is consistent with evidence that breaking up periods of sitting with movement is good for you.
Their open-access paper talks about some evolutionary context for this hypothesis [1].
[1] 10.1073/pnas.1911868117