Kinesiology 3476F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Inverse Relation
24 Oct 2017
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Cross-sectional associations between sitting at work and psychological distress: reducing sitting time may benefit mental health. Psychologically there is an association that those that spend the most time sitting are more psychologically distressed, more mental health problems. More mental health problems may cause you to sit more, there are associations being formed that too much sitting and mental health problems are linked. Canadian adults spend a whooping 9. 7 hours of their daily waking hours being sedentary! Major contexts for sedentary behaviour and their distribution over a typical adult"s waking hours. (from. 2010a, reproduced with permission of touch briefings, european endocrinology, vol. Sensor->picks up the amplitude and frequency of movement->produces an electrical current of various magnitude (more intense the movement the greater the voltage) Stores the information as activity counts->converted to aee/mets based on default or predetermined cut points. Inverse relationship once you change a sedentary profile go from high to low, most activity by default to light activity.
