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Women and men who sit more than six hours a day are, respectively, 37 percent and 18 percent more likely to die before people who sit less than three hours a day.

Americans sit on average from six to ten hours a day or, stated another way, from 50 to 70 percent of their waking hours.

Stand barefoot on the floor in an open, uncluttered space. Imagine you are standing in the middle of a Y. The single line of the Y goes out in front of you and the two "spears" of the top part of the Y go behind you to your right and to your left. Balancing on one leg, reach the other leg as far forward as you can without losing your balance toward the bottom of the Y and touch your toes to the floor.

In premenopausal women, sixteen weeks of high-impact jump training-jumping ten or twenty times, twice daily, with thirty seconds of rest between each jump —improves hip bone density. If youre not going to do it for your balance, do it for your bones!

When you stop jumping, you start dying.

Find something that feels playful. Stand on one leg while you brush your teeth or wash the dishes. Practice yoga tree pose or hop back and forth over an imaginary line while you watch TV.
Have a low wall in your backyard? See if you can stay steady as you walk across the wall. Tread barefoot back and forth on textured surfaces to give your feet some input. Now is the time to rediscover what you balance you like

the human body begins to lose muscle mass after age thirty. The loss can become particularly acute beginning at age sixty-five; how-ere, if you're inactive, you can potentially be looking at a lot of muscle loss as young as age fifty. You may even notice some related changes earlier

There is broader consensus on the fact that a few groups of people need more protein than others. Among those groups are seniors, who need extra protein to help them maintain muscle. If you're over sixty, we recommend hitting the higher end of our protein range (1 gram per pound body weight).

If you are experiencing pain-and neck pain in particular? When something hurts, it's always a good policy to look at what's connected to the area you want to change.

It was because I knew from the work we do that movement increases blood flow and blood flow accelerates healing, and that not moving just allows range of motion to atrophy. With that in mind, I just kept moving, moving, and moving.