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Identical meals can produce widely varying blood sugar responses in different people, depending on one's sex, as well as genetics, sedentariness and the gut microbiome.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2024

A proliferation of studies over the past decade has linked prolonged stretches of sedentariness to an uptick in the risk of diabetes, heart disease, even cancer.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2015

The health consequences of this sedentariness are well-documented.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2014

She says: "Perhaps one of the best cures for mental sedentariness is arithmetic, for there is nothing else which requires greater power of concentration."

From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold