{"id":85285,"date":"2019-01-17T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=85285"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:36:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:36:21","slug":"reuters-slim-sedentary-might-face-heart-risks-overweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/reuters-slim-sedentary-might-face-heart-risks-overweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Slim but sedentary might face same heart risks as overweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Slim but sedentary might face same heart risks as overweight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Lisa Rapaport<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Reuters Health) &#8211; Adults with a healthy weight but a sedentary lifestyle may have the same risk for heart attacks or strokes as people who are overweight, a recent study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that normal-weight people who spent much of the day sitting but still hit minimum recommended weekly exercise targets of 150 minutes of moderate activity had about a 58 percent lower risk of a heart attack or stroke than overweight people.<\/p>\n<p>But when individuals with a normal weight sat around most of the time and got very little exercise, their risk of serious cardiac events wasn\u2019t significantly different from that of overweight people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-heart-lifestyle\/slim-but-sedentary-might-face-same-heart-risks-as-overweight-idUSKCN1PA348?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=healthNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+reuters\/healthNews+(Reuters+Health+News)&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slim but sedentary might face same heart risks as overweight By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) &#8211; Adults with a healthy weight but a sedentary lifestyle may have the same risk for heart attacks or strokes as people who are overweight, a recent study suggests. 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