Why is being sedentary so bad for your body?
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your body is an incredible adaptable device, and to the extent it is able to will adapt to its circumstances… even so far as to adapt its adaptability.
when you are being sedentary, your body adapts to being sedentary and becomes better at it. muscle is expensive to maintain and uses more energy than fat to simply exist… so your body reduces muscle and increases fat.
as you adapt your adaptability to a sedentary lifestyle, it becomes harder to adapt the other way.
age causes loss of adaptability… as does adapting to adapt to being sedentary.
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