What a NEAT idea.
When you don't move
Being a movement guy, I get a lot of email relating to, well, movement.
Just today, in fact, I was emailed a link to an article which discussed why exercise alone is not the solution to the obesity epidemic.
No surprise there, as we all know that nutrition plays a fairly large role.
However, in this article, the author was discussing how a few hours a week of exercise was still not enough movement.
I agree.
This is where NEAT comes into play.
NEAT is the acronym for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis and represents ALL of your daily movement that’s not intentional exercise.
This includes puttering around your house (or your desk), walking to the mailbox, around the grocery store, to the dry cleaners or even your fidgeting.
Just move.
According to this article, in the past 150 years, we have dropped NEAT related calorie burn by about 2000 calories a day.
If you think that seems like a lot, it’s because it is!
We’ve stopped taking the stairs, we drive everywhere, we use remote controls and have automation everywhere. Technology is playing its part in making us fatter.
Take a stand. And move.
Dev Chengkalath
January 28th, 2010 at 9:03 am
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February 3rd, 2010 at 9:33 am
[...] or Non-Exercise Physical Activity (I’ve talked about it as NEAT or non-exercise activity thermogenesis previously) is all the other movement you do during your day [...]