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. 2010 Nov;59(11):2717-25.
doi: 10.2337/db10-0822.

Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and health: paradigm paralysis or paradigm shift?

Peter T Katzmarzyk  1
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Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and health: paradigm paralysis or paradigm shift?

Peter T Katzmarzyk. Diabetes. 2010 Nov.
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Average steps per day among Old Order Amish men and women (12) compared with contemporary U.S. adults in the 2005–2006 U.S. NHANES (13) and the 2003 America on the Move Study (14).
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RRs of all-cause mortality across levels of physical activity in the Harvard Alumni Study (17) (A) and cardiorespiratory fitness in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (18) (B).
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HRs for all-cause mortality across categories of leisure-time physical activity (active defined as expending ≥7.5 MET · h · wk−1) and daily sitting time in 17,013 men and women from the Canada Fitness Survey Follow-Up Study.
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Relationship between TV viewing and the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes over 6 years of follow-up in women 30–55 years of age from the Nurses' Health Study (36). Models are adjusted for age, smoking, alcohol use, hormone use, physical activity, total fat, cereal fiber, glycemic load, and total calories.
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