How To Use Sedentary In A Sentence

We're using a traditional sedentary medium, the Internet, to get you off your keister to participate.
A sedentary lifestyle also spells bad news for hips and thighs: increase your circulation by taking more exercise.
Walking is a many-sided pleasure and essential for those who lead a sedentary life.
-- But I had the impression that the author of the Spectator was afflicted with a dropsy, or some such inflated malady, to which persons of sedentary and bibacious habits are liable. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Patients returned to sedentary work after 1 week and to strenuous work after 5 to 6 months.

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Aardvarks, rabbits, zebras, and other animals that rely on a more sedentary diet opt for eyes on each side of the head, maximizing their ability to spot lurking dangers.
The curassows comprise 14 species of sedentary Neotropical birds classified in four genera (Crax, Nothocrax, Mitu, and Pauxi) in the family Cracidae.
If you're relatively sedentary, then you'll need less.
Lifestyle physical activity may be more successful than structured and more vigorous exercise in motivating sedentary and overweight persons.
We have learned that the interface between people and machine (sedentary work) is inherently corrosive, producing cumulative health problems such as eyestrain, fatigue, repetitive stress injuries, chronic low back disorders, constriction of blood flow and breathing, and neck and shoulder strain. PSFK
STRENGTH AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility. Ulysses
Then I notice that in this sedentary position, the whole ensemble rides up around my waist.
While sedentary work represents a significantly restricted range of work, this range in itself is not so prohibitively restricted as to negate work capability for substantial gainful activity.
Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle has been linked with an increased risk of heart disease.
People in sedentary jobs need to take exercise.
I find that he is capable of performing at least sedentary tasks up to five days a week for five to six hours each day.
Even a relatively sedentary species can be listed if a significant proportion of its number migrate.
He became increasingly sedentary in later life.
So sedentary people often gain weight gradually.
Type 2 diabetes has exploded because of the increasing prevalence of both obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
None of the sedentary students participated in organized exercise activities during the preceding year.
I don't think a sedentary life would altogether suit me.
This is not a sedentary fishing, there are no bivouacs or campsites involved with this style of fishing.
Jaho, who could herself be described as portly, said it was important to try to reduce the chronic illnesses associated with a sedentary lifestyle. ANC Daily News Briefing
The walls and sea floor consist of stark boulders and rough seams of rock uncolonised by sedentary species.
His civil servants have been warned not to ask him to do anything sedentary on July 2.
This sedentary behaviour is apparently turning our kids into a race of slothful fatties who risk a reduced lifespan and other problems.
I got that job and since then have lived a silent, sedentary, solitary, private life in Knaresborough; not at all a discontented one. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
And as long as we remain sedentary and warm, they’ll stay. Why Cats Love Writers
If he had ever trod his ancestral acres either for pleasure or profit he might in time have "stomped out" the whiteweed, so the neighbors said, for he had the family foot, the size of an anvil; but he much preferred a sedentary life, and the whiteweed went on seeding itself from year to year. Ladies-In-Waiting
It is an 8-week lifestyle program designed to incrementally elicit and sustain habitual physical activity behaviors in previously sedentary people.
I am persuaded that all valetudinarians are too sedentary, too regular, and too cautious — We should sometimes increase the motion of the machine, to unclog the wheels of life; and now and then take a plunge amidst the waves of excess, in order to caseharden the constitution. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Chronic musculoskeletal injury ( CMI ) of trunk is a work - related disease in sedentary workers.
But if you've also learned unhealthy eating habits and sedentary ways from your family, you'll need to change your lifestyle.
Bookkeeping is a sedentary occupation.
This does not always mean that they are sedentary.
The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history.
The simple act of giving up a sedentary occupation brought about the improved the state of health.
We've become sedentary, convenience foods fill our kitchens, and stress is a common denominator.
Having arrived at the waterside, the angler goes into sedentary mode, where he exerts very little energy, and becomes easily cooled.
Society in general has also become increasingly sedentary.
The period is characterized by the gradual introduction of maize and other tropical cultigens, gradually transforming the resident hunter-gatherer populations into sedentary agricultural communities.
He has the pale, pasty set of the sedentary, a fleshy padding of indulgence and a deep, broad accent with an odd similarity to that of Charles Kennedy.
My doctor says I should start playing sport because my lifestyle is too sedentary.
Alternatively, it is also logical that people who are spiritually not at one, who over-eat fatty or excessively carbo foods, are sedentary, drink nothing perhaps due to wowserism and are alone are at the greatest risk. Archive 2008-01-01
The sedentary multipara, curled up in her boudoir on a rainy afternoon, finds nothing to her taste in his grim tales. A Book of Prefaces
Political tensions exist between sedentary peoples and nomads.
Reason: the unprecedented rapidity with which the hitherto relatively sedentary human populations are inter-mixing across the globe.
Charlene Burgeson, executive director of the National Association for Sport & Physical Education, a group of physical education and sports professionals, says, This study reinforces the importance of all youth being physically active, spending minimal time in sedentary activities such as TV watching, and maintaining a healthy weight. One-third of U.S. kids are out of shape, study finds
The obvious question raised is whether it is possible for sedentary workers to obtain health benefits by physical activity in leisure time.
Sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy foods, and the proliferation of adverts aimed at children for products such as sugar-coated cereals are all said to be contributory factors.
Similarly, Toronto festivalgoers can see the world every year without leaving a sedentary position.
Haemorrhoids are not caused by sitting on cold hard surfaces, prolonged standing or sedentary work.
Conan," he thought he heard a voice, though as he heard his name the sedentary mist came to life, swirling around the trees and statues and over his bare chest, sending a chill down his spine. Conan Fan Fiction!
Are you going to slip back and be the sedentary person everyone expects, or are you going to stick up for yourself?
Most coral reef fishes have a bipartite life cycle, with a dispersing pelagic larval phase and a relatively sedentary reef resident phase.
Compared to this, the goodfellas seem like sedentary sentimentalists, trapped animals rooted in dying communities, doomed territories.
Darfur means ‘Homeland of the Fur, ‘the name of one of the remote region's sedentary, non-Arab tribes.’
He was already obese and he was already living a sedentary lifestyle.
In general it appears that a man or a woman whose occupation is what we call sedentary, who is without vigorous exercise and does but little hard muscular work, needs much less than the man at hard manual labor, and that the brain worker needs comparatively little of carbohydrates or fats. Public School Domestic Science
This time, Taras, only for a crisp moment, acted tentative in taking the sedentary position.
Zú‘l-Ka’adah, the sedentary, is the rest time of the year, when fighting is forbidden and Zu’l-Hijjah explains itself as the pilgrimage-month. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If the main hall is essentially an adaptable tent structure, then the concrete block to the north of the central axis acts as its sedentary counterbalance.
Normally, when one stood up from a sedentary position, one's mind would be unequal in circulatory oxygen than the rest of the body.
Twelve were allocated to aerobic and strength training, and six led more sedentary lifestyles.
The Governor said walking was essential for sedentary people to keep the system in trim.
His lameness made him fond of sedentary occupation.
The current population of Twareg within the reserve is about 5,000 of which some 1,000 are both cultivators and herders; the sedentary population at Iférouane and Tin Telloust, is about 1,500. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
Historically, Arabs in Sudan tend to practice nomadic pastoralism, and black Africans (such as the Fur or Masalit) tend to subsist through sedentary agriculture.
Jog if you must, he says, but running is too strenuous, especially if you've been leading a sedentary life. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
It may seem a sedentary occupation, but it's primary evidence. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
The wine was excellent, notwithstanding its having been brought in a runlet from Edinburgh; and the habits of the Marquis, when engaged with such good cheer, were somewhat sedentary. The Bride of Lammermoor
Unfortunately, I am the most sedentary person there is.
I mean, who wouldn't choose a talking cereal box over the sedentary and mute Rice Krispies?
A study group of relatively sedentary birds, such as the curassows, should provide some insight on how important dispersal is to the evolutionary history of less-mobile birds.
A laboring man, in the open fields, probably throws off from his skin ten times the amount of perspirable matter, which is evolved from the skin of a person of sedentary pursuits. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Being a completely sedentary person myself, I'm very impressed by people who stay fit.
Persians are the most mellow, sedentary and equable cats ever created.
On your day off you don't need to be completely sedentary.
My body had begun to stiffen up after many years of sedentary work as a therapist.
But we burn off fewer of them because of our more sedentary lifestyles.
A sedentary lifestyle without at least moderate physical activity is associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
Shake the crab harder, and you may dislodge tiny sea stars feeding on oysters and mussels, or sea urchins scavenging for seaweed and sedentary invertebrates.
Society in general has also become increasingly sedentary.
Yet in an increasingly sedentary society, riding is a healthy pastime which is growing in popularity, particularly among the young.
forced by illness to lead a sedentary life
If you are a sedentary person, that's a strike against you, because weight-bearing exercise increases the health of bones.
It was all down to yesterday's hard labour, of course, and sedentary activities.
Chaumette we saw mounted on bourne-stones, while Tallien worked sedentary at the subeditorial desk. The French Revolution
The obvious question raised is whether it is possible for sedentary workers to obtain health benefits by physical activity in leisure time.
Conversely in some submaximal tests, no measurements are made other than the time it takes to run a specific distance not recommended for sedentary people. Hold it!
He found that the sedentary life of a deskbound management consultant meant that he put on weight. Times, Sunday Times
Sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy foods, and the proliferation of adverts aimed at children for products such as sugar-coated cereals are all said to be contributory factors.
The media have in recent months made a lot of the fact that we're a tubby and sedentary nation -- well, more truthfully, obese -- and that we have been getting tubbier and more sedentary by the decade. Peter Clothier: Family Fun and Fitness
This could lead anyone to think that they are sedentary birds, resident in the same area throughout their lives.
Given my usual sedentary existence, I'm rather bushed, so this is another terse entry.
It's an impromptu exercise in unsupervised reconciliation, as well as an exploration of the evolving consequences of nomadic life in a sedentary society.
I was fat for about 10 years living in France and the US with mainly sedentary work and abundance of food to eat.
I don't think a sedentary life would altogether suit me.
His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand. Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
It migrates over lage distances for a so- called sedentary species, needs riparian areas and insects for its chicks, and above all needs SAGE, a major part of its diet. Bad news for the Sage Grouse
Compared with more sedentary people, athletes display greater skin perfusion for the same increase in core temperature.
Riding, as well as a sedentary life, encourages costiveness. 1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
These results are in startling contrast with studies conducted with sedentary people.
The Caddo were a semi-sedentary and agricultural people, living in large, conical, communal, grass-thatched houses, and cultivating abundant crops of corn, beans, and pumpkins. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The walls and sea floor consist of stark boulders and rough seams of rock uncolonised by sedentary species.
Gordon Childe coined the term Neolithic Revolution in the 1920s, archaeologists had assumed that sedentary life was necessary for successful agriculture: farmers had to stay close to their crops and animals. The Goddess and the Bull
Other sedentary activities - playing video and computer games or talking on the phone - also should be limited.
For a sedentary person, disease risk becomes significantly higher when BMI exceeds 27.
You would not wish to decode pain in terms of a sedentary life, a defeatist posture, the inevitable process of aging. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
Like just about everything else in the Centennial State, Colorado has transformed fall foliage from a sedentary activity into active outdoor adventure. Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives
She pretends, that she was too volatile, too gay, too airy, to be confin-ed to sedentary amusements. Sir Charles Grandison
Approximately 55% report a sedentary lifestyle and 26% have no leisure-time physical activity.
That self-moving, selfcreating nation necessitated an Irish centre of policy, and I planned a premature impossible peace between those two devouring heads because I was sedentary and thoughtful; but Maud Gonne was not sedentary, and I noticed that before some great event she did not think but became exceedingly superstitious. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
If we want to stop western obesity, we can either change our entire sedentary life style, all take loads of amphetamines or get someone to invent really nice, tasty, fast food that isn't lardy as hell.
Thus, a well-trained athlete may have a more developed endogenous antioxidant system than a sedentary person.
Children seem to become more sedentary every year, watching television and playing video games instead of biking to the playground or playing kickball in the backyard with their pals.
Some of these regimes eventually retreated back to the north, and some adapted better to Chinese sedentary lifestyles (e.g., the Northern Wei) and even contributed to future Chinese civilization. 420-479
The Sedentary Phase embraces a range of local and regional cultures, including Pueblo Culture.
Is being fat dangerous, or is it the sedentary lifestyle that often goes along with being fat?
The UK won 30 medals 19, of which were won from a sedentary position.
Children have also become more sedentary, frequently relying on junk food for nourishment, all of which adds to the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States.
While some animals are sedentary, such as barnacles and sponges, most are quite able to move around.
Moderately active fat people have far lower mortality rates than do thin sedentary people, and the same death rates as thin active people.
(Incidentally, the Laffer maximum for banditry from a sedentary neighbor, where there are a few but not many competing bandits, is probably somewhere in between the maxima for fully roving and fully stationary bandits: Sides recounts how the Navajo would not steal every animal from their Pueblo or Mexican neighbors during raids, but made sure to leave them enough breeding stock to rebuild their herds). Hampton Sides sheds light on Mancur Olson and Ronald Coase « Isegoria
Early in the eighteenth century they started becoming closely associated with sedentary village tribes of the upper Missouri River, namely The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. Cheyenne �� a story from the Great Plains-- part 1
Sedentary will lead to muscle ache, stiff neck and headache and dizziness.
The first results showed a striking difference in busmen: sedentary drivers were more than twice as likely to die of a heart attack as the conductors who went up and down 500 steps a day. Julia Moulden: Work After 50? How About 100?
Along with larger portions of more fattening food, Americans have become increasingly sedentary over the last couple of decades.
Amid the brouhaha of raised voices I didn't dare speak up — in Scots-accented French — to suggest more sedentary but perhaps more efficacious means, such as a lawyer's letter. It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France
But the boys were much likelier than female ones to have a sedentary lifestyle and, critically, have poor cardiorespiratory (heart and lung) fitness – the best predictor of chronic illness in later life, said Sandercock. 32% of pupils skip breakfast before school, study finds
For many it will be a rude awakening and emphasise the need for a radical rethink before soccer's loss is another gain for a different form of sport, or worse still the sedentary armchair variety.
At the same time, an active hunting lifestyle is gradually being replaced by sedentary habits, including desk-bound employment.
Most studies of invertebrate larval metamorphosis have been performed with species that are sedentary or sessile as adults.
As people become acculturated they adopt American ways: They become more sedentary and eat fast food," said Dr. Molina. Latino Aging Stumps Experts
For example, 30/70 for the superactive and perhaps 90/10 for the middle-aged supersedentary. Times, Sunday Times
Thus the sedentary act of reading becomes a leap from a board poised high above an Olympic-sized pool: "I decided it would be a good idea to dive bellyflop, really into the scientific literature. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review
Tribes practising sedentary agriculture or non-nomadic pastoralism are already on the downhill run towards modern, industrial society.
Considered to be the most sedentary of the woodswallows, it will move to coastal areas during droughts.
Few people are so sedentary that they don't move around for at least one hour in the day.
There are also several small sedentary species that primarily feed on invertebrates including sea horses (Family Syngnathidae), some blennies (Family Labrosomidae), and some gobies (Family Gobiidae). Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
Meanwhile, heavy work in industry and agriculture has mostly been replaced by sedentary activities in service industries.
The magpie is monogamous, territorial, sedentary, and relatively long-lived for passerine birds, with a well-described biology.
I said, and repeated the surprising scientific finding that physician Harry Lodge, my co-moderator, would never say in a public forum: "A fat guy who smokes a pack a day and exercises will outlive a thin, non-smoker who is sedentary. Promote yourself to chief executive officer for good health
Physical therapists are encountering more patients who are deconditioned due to the increased prevalence of a sedentary lifestyle.
A fatter, sicker, sedentary population is heading into old age with more illnesses and incapacities than previous generations. Times, Sunday Times
These days not only do we have that message shoved down our throats, we are also bombarded with horror stories of child obesity and the huge rise in popularity of sedentary children's activities (favoured because they'll be abducted if they're allowed to play out, so we're led to believe), plus the five-a-day fruit-and-veg diktat. Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales
The contrast with sedentary tribes could not, at first sight, be more marked.
Historically, Arabs in Sudan tend to practice nomadic pastoralism, and black Africans (such as the Fur or Masalit) tend to subsist through sedentary agriculture.
An important implication of our observations is that sedentary living may predispose to Obstructive Sleep Apnea not only by promoting obesity, but also by causing dependent fluid accumulation in the legs, which can shift rostrally to the neck overnight," said Dr. Bradley. Health News from Medical News Today
Bad eating habits and sedentary lifestyle play a role in the onset of diabetes.
Sedentary behaviour was higher in overweight children in the intervention group.
If she's attending a more sedentary event, she'll pull out what she calls her "sitting shoes," which are more embellished and have a higher heel. Hitting the Right Note for a Night on the Town
In addition, 78 percent of Americans do not meet basic activity level recommendations and 25 percent are completely sedentary.
The fish that were sedentary during the summer inhabited the deepest holes of the river.
And when asked to perform sit-ups and press-ups, the sedentary group could not even notch up half the number performed in a minute by the soo bahk do group.
At first it seemed that it was just a sedentary pest in residential plantings, where it could be controlled with dormant oil or insecticidal soap sprays.
Her project implicitly calls for a slower, more sedentary mode of existence.
In addition to increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary activity is also important.
Holman said Aaron's lifestyle in general was relatively sedentary.
Although they could challenge sedentary empires by a process of confederation, provided they maintained their mobile way of life, there was no way that these nomadic and sedentary empires could be regarded as like units.
An important implication of our observations is that sedentary living may predispose to OSA not only by promoting obesity, but also by causing dependent fluid accumulation in the legs, which can shift rostrally to the neck overnight," said Dr. Bradley. Medlogs - Recent stories
Recent studies have also shown that children around the world are becoming increasingly sedentary, especially in poor urban areas.
Our recent Pinnæ are all sedentary shells, some of them full two feet in length, fastened to their places on their deep-sea floors by flowing silky byssi, -- cables of many strands, -- of which beautiful pieces of dress, such as gloves and hose, have been manufactured. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
You would not wish to decode pain in terms of a sedentary life, a defeatist posture, the inevitable process of aging. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
Falconids can be sedentary or migratory.
Both cutties and churchwardens were smoked, but the latter of course were not adapted for persons engaged in active pursuits and were essentially of what I may call a sedentary nature. The Social History of Smoking
What measure of fitness is needed for a sedentary, far-behind-the-lines soldier who by pushing buttons and analyzing data can kill more of the enemy than a battalion of grunts?
While Eva is attracted to freedom of movement, she also associates a non-sedentary lifestyle with criminality, with ‘gypping’ folks of their accumulated possessions.
Finally, this normally sedentary animal inflated a muscular cone at its base to lever itself free from its moorings and danced away in the water column.
He mentioned TV and computer activity, and that work is more sedentary.
A sedentary lifestyle is now seen as being a very important risk factor for heart disease and other conditions.
Adult male manakins are more sedentary than females and young males and may not disperse seeds as widely as females and young males.
Some species of ovenbirds are migratory, others are sedentary.
This is especially important for anyone who has been sedentary or who has not engaged in regular vigorous physical activity.
The hyperparasitic crab and the angler fish both have sedentary females and very small males.
This is especially important for anyone who has been sedentary or who has not engaged in regular vigorous physical activity.
Five to ten thousand years ago, agriculture and sedentary settlement reinstalled hierarchical governance. The Times Literary Supplement
Taken once a day, the polypill will undo some of the damage caused by our sedentary Western lifestyles, cutting strokes and heart attacks by more than 80%.
Obtain It_ which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility. Ulysses
Because of their sedentary character and free grazing habit, reindeer tend to trample and overgraze lichen pastures during summer and autumn.
We found no significant difference in physical activity or sedentary behaviour for the sample as a whole.
Although the accultural condition of the Siouan survivors ranges from the essentially primitive status of the Asiniboin to the practical civilization of the representatives of several tribes, it is fair to consider the stock in a state of transition from barbarism to civilization; and many of the tribesmen are losing the characteristics of activity and somatic development normal to primitive life, while they have not yet assimilated the activities and acquired the somatic characteristics normal to peaceful sedentary life. The Siouan Indians
In the United States, a study involving 43,757 male health professionals some of whom were described as sedentary or overweight, or were smokers, or both found that those consuming more than 25 grams of fiber per day had a 36 percent lower risk of developing heart disease than those who consumed less than 15 grams daily. The Fiber35 Diet
Song sparrows are sedentary and defend territories in both breeding and non-breeding seasons.
Let those who want to pay for better health care do so, instead of being forced to wait in line behind those who smoke too much, eat too much greasy food and live sedentary lives.
Those doing sedentary jobs watch out - you are eating more calories than you expend during the day.
My doctor says I should start playing sport because my lifestyle is too sedentary.
Transient fishermen and shoremen had made up the primary work crews of the early Newfoundland fishery in both its migratory and sedentary sectors. Gutenber-e Help Page
If implemented widely, such a strategy could result in major health benefits for sedentary people.
The obvious question raised is whether it is possible for sedentary workers to obtain health benefits by physical activity in leisure time.
His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand. Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
Poor eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle learned in her youth are often responsible.
The title refers to the time when an outside spy has to ‘come in from the cold’ and take a sedentary job as another spy's control or even some menial desk assignment until the mandatory age limit forces retirement.
It assumes that you have a sedentary job, that you do little or no exercise, butthat you'remobile and able to walk for20 minutes. The Think Yourself Fit exercise plan
Rhinos are largely sedentary animals.
Stesart reported lethargy during sedentary periods after five days of exposure to TCE at 500 ppm. 10 In a group of workers exposed to TCE an intolerance to alcohol developed producing an erythematous skin reaction known as the "degreaser's flush. Poison prevention for Delaware, Lehigh Valley, S.E. Pennsylvania

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