Posture allocation revisited: breaking the sedentary threshold of energy expenditure for obesity management
- Miles-Chan, Jennifer L. Department of Medicine Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Dulloo, Abdul G. Department of Medicine Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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22.06.2017
Published in:
- Frontiers in Physiology. - 2017, vol. 8, p. 420
English
There is increasing recognition that low-intensity physical activities of daily life play an important role in achieving energy balance and that their societal erosion through substitution with sedentary (mostly sitting) behaviours, whether occupational or for leisure, impact importantly on the obesity epidemic. This has generated considerable interest for better monitoring, characterizing and promoting countermeasures to sedentariness through a plethora of low-level physical activities (e.g. active workstations, standing desks, sitting breaks), amid the contention that altering posture allocation (lying, sitting, standing) can modify energy expenditure to impact upon body weight regulation and health. In addressing this contention, this paper first revisits the past and more recent literature on postural energetics, with particular emphasis on potential determinants of the large inter-individual variability in the energy cost of standing and the impact of posture on fat oxidation. It subsequently analyses the available data pertaining to various strategies by which posture allocations, coupled with light physical activity, may increase energy expenditure beyond the sedentary threshold, and their relevance as potential targets for obesity management.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Médecine
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 306751
- DOI 10.3389/fphys.2017.00420
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/306531
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