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Sedentary in sentence

24 examples of Sedentary in a sentence

So in many ways, I am parents' dream of how somebody can turn a sedentary lifestyle of playing video games into an actual career that pays real money.
At the opposite extreme in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, are the New Guinea farming societies where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years, and most other sedentary traditional societies around the world.
But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around, and our bodies simply aren't built for such a sedentary existence.
"Excellent house for sedentary travelers prone to myocardial infarctions.
And a year before that I was a pack-a-day smoker, living a very sedentary lifestyle.
Researchers at the CDC and other places have increasingly been linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles.
No integrated music, no sound effects or very poor ones, no visual effects of course with most of the time sedentary cameras.
Diabetes poses an especially grave threat to Mexico, where urbanization and other social changes are pushing people toward more sedentary lifestyles and triggering a surge in obesity-related diseases.
We chose this venue first, because the effects of indoor recess on children’s attention would provide insight into the role of a relatively sedentary break period on subsequent attention.
It also reflects deep, long-standing concerns about the effects of civilization: urban overcrowding, sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy habits like tobacco and alcohol consumption, overeating, and stress.
These boundaries, together with growing populations of sedentary farmers, have hemmed in pastoralist communities.
Mali’s population is diverse: desert nomads, notably Tuaregs, in the north, and a majority of sedentary black populations in the south.
Sedentary lifestyles produced visibly different people.
Moreover, silent epidemics have taken hold, particularly in lower-income countries, as the combination of mega-trends like urbanization, population aging, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, and alcohol consumption has spurred the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Both of these factors incite sedentary behavior at home and at work, as well as profound alterations in dietary habits.
Nevertheless, a growing body of evidence suggests that a culture emphasizing processed food and a generally sedentary lifestyle lies at the center of the problem.
Again, many factors underlie this, including a diet of cheap, unhealthy fried foods, but the sedentary time spent in front of the TV is an important influence as well.
Realizing the increasingly sedentary nature of the guerrillas gave the government confidence that its threat to overrun the demilitarized zone would bring the FARC back to serious negotiations.
Until the mid 19th century, sedentary Muslim elites were co-opted into the imperial aristocracy, just as, in the 20th century, national communist elites were absorbed into the Soviet nomenclatura .
But while mortality rates from infectious diseases are declining, developed countries’ sedentary lifestyles, tobacco use, and poor diets are catching on in the developing world, and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer are increasing at an alarming rate.
Obesity often is a consequence of sedentary work and recreation habits, which result from the way we build our offices, schools, and cities.
Unlike in a sedentary culture, in which political power is derived from control of the land on which subjects lived, if a ruler could not ensure his tribe’s security and economic prosperity, families simply migrated to another place with a different ruler.
"He is a man who leads a sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream.
It ought not to be a difficult task, since that gentleman was naturally sedentary and little curious.