Journal article
Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis: The Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon of Societal Weight Gain
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, Vol.26(4), pp.729-736
04/2006
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000205848.83210.73
PMID: 16439708
Abstract
Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy expenditure of all physical activities other than volitional sporting-like exercise. NEAT includes all the activities that render us vibrant, unique, and independent beings such as working, playing, and dancing. Because people of the same weight have markedly variable activity levels, it is not surprising that NEAT varies substantially between people by up to 2000 kcal per day. Evidence suggests that low NEAT may occur in obesity but in a very specific fashion. Obese individuals appear to exhibit an innate tendency to be seated for 2.5 hours per day more than sedentary lean counterparts. If obese individuals were to adopt the lean “NEAT-o-type,” they could potentially expend an additional 350 kcal per day. Obesity was rare a century ago and the human genotype has not changed over that time. Thus, the obesity epidemic may reflect the emergence of a chair-enticing environment to which those with an innate tendency to sit, did so, and became obese. To reverse obesity, we need to develop individual strategies to promote standing and ambulating time by 2.5 hours per day and also re-engineer our work, school, and home environments to render active living the option of choice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis: The Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon of Societal Weight Gain
- Creators
- James Levine - From Endocrine Research Unit (J.A.L.) and Nicotine Dependence Center (M.W.V.W., R.C.K.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; University of Colorado, University of Colorado Health Science Center (J.O.H.), Center For Human Nutrition, Denver, ColMark Vander WegJames HillRobert Klesges
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, Vol.26(4), pp.729-736
- DOI
- 10.1161/01.ATV.0000205848.83210.73
- PMID
- 16439708
- NLM abbreviation
- Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
- ISSN
- 1079-5642
- eISSN
- 1524-4636
- Publisher
- American Heart Association, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2006
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center; Community and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984064187802771
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