LessSittingTime，Healthier減少久坐更健康

侯冬意

If you always spend your time on sitting， now stand up. Move your legs， and 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. Some studies found that cutting television time to less than two hours a day could add 1.4 years to life.

如果你總是坐著，現在請站起來。如果可以，活動一下你的腿，伸伸腳趾。做一些除了靜坐以外的其他活動吧。如果你減少了坐著的時間，你可能會活得更久。新的研究表明：一天坐著的時間少于三個小時，可能延長兩年的壽命。一些研究發現每天看電視的時間減少到少于兩個小時，就能增加1.4年的壽命。

The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles rarely give us the chance to move around. Sitting is something we do all the time， everywhere. But that does not make sitting good for us. We sit while were eating; we sit in the car; we sit while we do our homework. And many of us sit for many hours. So on average， Americans report that they sit between four and a half to five hours a day.

人的身體就是為了活動而“設計”的。但是現代生活方式很少給我們活動的機會。坐著是我們隨時隨地總在做的事情。但是這并不是說坐著就對我們有好處。吃飯的時候我們要坐著，乘車的時候要坐著，寫作業的時候也要坐著。我們中的很多人要坐很多個小時。所以平均來說，美國人的報道說他們每天坐著的時間是4.5到5個小時。

Though you may exercise often， that does not mean you can sit for the rest of your time. If you exercise for 30 minutes a day， what goes on in the other 23.5 hours a day is also very important.

你可能經常運動，但即使是這樣，也并不表示你在其余的時間里可以一直坐著。如果你一天運動30分鐘，你在一天中剩余的23.5個小時所做的也是非常重要的。

Change is already coming to some offices and classrooms， especially in the design of desks. A “standing desk” lets people stand while they work. Some U.S. schools are beginning to experiment with desks that are part bicycle to keep children moving.

有的辦公室和教室已經發生了改變，尤其是在桌子的設計上。一種“站立式桌子”讓人站著工作。一些美國學校也開始嘗試結合一些自行車功能的課桌，讓孩子們保持運動。

Suggestions for sitting less 減少久坐的建議：

Get up from your desk as often as you can;

Take walks at lunch time;

Instead of emailing friends， walk to their houses and talk directly; ...

盡可能多次地離開你的桌子;

午餐時間走走路;

把給好友發郵件換成走到他們家直接說;……