Simply put, our bodies aren't designed to be sedentary.

简单地说，我们的身体不是为久不动而设计的。

A good rule of thumb is 13 calories per pound of body weight for a sedentary person of either sex, 16 calories per pound for a moderately active person, and 18 calories per pound for a vigorously active person.

一个经验法则就是，无论男女，久的人每磅体重需要13卡路里的热量，中等强度 动的人每磅体重需要16卡路里，动强度比较大的人每磅体重需要18卡路里。

I doubt it! And finally, number six – sedentary means sitting a lot and not taking much exercise. For example, It’s bad for your health to lead such a sedentary lifestyle.

我很怀疑！最后，第六个单词，久的，是指长时间着，很少锻炼。例如，这种久生对健康有害。

It also cultivates bad habits, motivating a sedentary lifestyle and an unhealthy diet.

还会培养坏习惯，促使人们养成久的生和不健康的饮食。

This can easily be blamed on easy access to junk food and sedentary lifestyles.

这很容易归于普遍的垃圾食品和久不动的生。

The question that we asked in my lab is, what's the least amount of " movement breaks" that we need in order to offset the harms of being highly sedentary?

我在实验室里研究的核心问题是：为了抵消长期久的危害，我们最起码需要多长时间的“运动间歇”？

Quantification is another excuse to remain sedentary.

量化是另一个保持久的借口。

A sedentary lifestyle can lead to health problems like obesity.

久的生可能导致肥胖等健康问题。

We've been hearing more and more about how sitting is the new smoking, she said.

她说，" 我们听到越越多关于久危害等同吸烟的说法" 。

It has been found that a sedentary lifestyle due to continuous sitting can weaken your bones.

研究发现，习惯久的生会让骨头变弱。

Recent studies have found that sitting for long periods is linked with some types of cancers and heart disease and can contribute to diabetes, kidney and liver problems.

最近研究发现久与某些类型的癌症、心脏疾病有关，还会导致糖尿病与肝、肾之毛病。

His frame was slight and boyish, but he had grown rather doughy by his late 30s, with a pot belly and a pallid complexion that suggested, along with his spectacles, a sedentary life in the half-light of the margins.

他身材瘦小，像个孩子，但到了 30 多岁时，他已经变得相当臃肿，有个大肚子，肤色苍白，还有他的眼镜，这些都表明他在边缘地区的半明半暗下过着久不动的生。

Number six. Diabetes and heart problems. A sedentary lifestyle due to long sitting hours in front of the computer reduces your body's ability to move the glucose from your blood vessels into your cells.

糖尿病和心脏疾病。久的生降低了身体将葡萄糖从血管输送到细胞的能力。

But, the fact is that overweight and sedentary subjects did lose weight by adding exercise and making zero dietary changes, which means they were effectively outrunning their so-called " bad" diet.

但是，事实是超重和久的受试者确实可以通过增加锻炼和不改变饮食习惯减重，这意味着他们实际上已经拜托了所谓的“糟糕”饮食的影响。

" Obesity can stem from a variety of factors, including family clustering of obesity, stress-related eating, a sedentary lifestyle, high-calorie food choices and the traditional perception associating excess weight with wealth, " said Zhang.

“肥胖的成因多种多样，包括家族性肥胖、压力性进食、久不动的生、高热量饮食选择，以及传统观念中将体重与富裕程度挂钩的认知，”张鹏说道。

To look into those issues, they recruited 30 overweight, sedentary men. (They plan to do a follow-up study with women.) The researchers tested the men's fitness and insulin sensitivity and then divided them into three groups.

为此，他们招募了30名久超重的男性（下一步计划对女性展开相关研究），测试了他们的健康状况和胰岛素敏感度，随后将其分为三组。

A 2007 study showed that subjects who did high-intensity exercise beforehand could learn vocabulary words 20% faster than those who remained sedentary.

一项在 2007 年进行的研究显示，事先进行过高强度运动的受试者，在记忆词汇时比那些久不动的受试者快 20%。

Sedentary office jobs can make people fat; but people are far less likely to die on the job than they once were.

久不动的办公室工作会让人发胖；但人们在工作中死亡的可能性比以前小得多。

But, hypothetically speaking, if I wanted to exercise to offset the damages done by glorious sitting, what would I have to do?

但是，假如我想通过锻炼抵消久所的坏处，我应该怎么做呢？

There was a study that showed that there was a very limited increase in lifespan for the exercised mice versus sedentary mice.

有一项研究表明，运动的老鼠相比于久不动的老鼠，寿命增长有限。