Metabolic Syndrome - Just Stand Up

Standing up, without doing anything else, helps your body to process fats after a meal. If you are sat down the fat stays in the blood and keeps on circulating for a long time and then gradually deposits into arteries or stored long-term in fat cells.

Read this report and look at the video which includes a shot of two test tubes. One shows clear blood serum when the patient has stood up after a meal while the blood serum taken after sitting down after a meal (the meals in the two are exactly the same) is noticeably cloudy.

Look at these charts on Metabolic Syndrome - you can use the next and last buttons on each slide - to see what a difference physical activity can make in reducing health risk. Until now it wasn't known that light activity could be quite that light - just standing up is a good thing.

The Metabolic Syndrome Institute is a great source of information. This video from them is well worth listening to.