Breaking up of prolonged sitting over three days sustains, but does not enhance, lowering of postprandial plasma glucose and insulin in overweight and obese adults.

@article{Larsen2015BreakingUO,
  title={Breaking up of prolonged sitting over three days sustains, but does not enhance, lowering of postprandial plasma glucose and insulin in overweight and obese adults.},
  author={Robyn Larsen and Bronwyn A. Kingwell and Carol Robinson and Louise Hammond and Ester Cerin and Jonathan E. Shaw and Genevieve Nissa Healy and Marc T. Hamilton and Neville Owen and David W. Dunstan},
  journal={Clinical science},
  year={2015},
  volume={129 2},
  pages={
          117-27
        }
}
To compare the cumulative (3-day) effect of prolonged sitting on metabolic responses during a mixed meal tolerance test (MTT), with sitting that is regularly interrupted with brief bouts of light-intensity walking. Overweight/obese adults (n=19) were recruited for a randomized, 3-day, outpatient, cross-over trial involving: (1) 7-h days of uninterrupted sitting (SIT); and (2) 7-h days of sitting with light-intensity activity breaks [BREAKS; 2-min of treadmill walking (3.2 km/h) every 20 min… 
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