February 13, 2012
Standing at your desk may help you lose weight
James Levine has reviewed the statistics: One in three Minnesota adults is either diabetic or prediabetic, and one in four is obese. And he thinks he’s found the underlying ailment: “The sitting disease.” “Sitting is sort of the new smoking,” the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist said recently before participating in an experiment designed to tackle so-called […]
Tags: diabetic, James Levine, obese, prediabetic, the sitting disease
February 7, 2012
Body and Soul | Get on your feet for better health
Mayo Clinic’s James Levine thinks he has found the underlying ailment for adults who are diabetic, pre-diabetic or obese: “the sitting disease.”“Sitting is sort of the new smoking,” the endocrinologist said recently, on the eve of an experiment designed to tackle so-called “lifestyle” diseases.He and a team of researchers from Mayo and the University of […]
Tags: James Levine, lifestyle diseases, the sitting disease, University of Minnesota
December 8, 2011
Our sedentary, office-bound lives are slowly killing us. Luckily, one British scientist thinks he has the answer. But will the ‘treadmill desk’ catch on? John Preston finds out. In 2006, James Levine, a British scientist based at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, conducted a very strange experiment. He wanted to measure something which goes by […]
Tags: James Levine, Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis - or NEAT