Tony Buzan

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.

English Author

Randy Couture

A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

American Actor

Ellen Burstyn

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

American Actress

Bruce Broussard

Our 'convenience culture' translates into too-available entertainment options, fast food, sedentary transportation, and the like. The fact is, if you want to eat right and live a healthy lifestyle, you have to work at it.

American Businessman

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

French Philosopher

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.

American Author

Frans van Houten

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

Dutch Businessman

Jessie Pavelka

If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.

American Athlete

George Santayana

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

Spanish Philosopher

Ben Miller

I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.

English Comedian

Often implies negative health effects due to inactivity, useful in medical or health contexts.

Health Concerns

Commonly used to describe modern work or leisure habits that involve sitting for long hours.

Modern Lifestyle

Implies choice or necessity of lifestyle, not just lazy behavior; context is important.

Not Just Laziness

In zoology, indicates animals' choice or instinct to stay in a single habitat or area.

Animal Behavior

Doesn't mean the animal never moves; it may move, but doesn't leave its general area.

Not Immobile

Emphasizes the organism's fixed nature to one place, unlike freely moving organisms.

Permanent Attachment

Relates to organisms that live and thrive in a particular environmental condition.

Habitat Specific

 Our bodies love to sit, right? Not really. Sure, sitting for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. 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. In fact, just the opposite is true.

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 to the rights and responsibilities involved, has varied greatly between different eras, cultures and social classes. So, let's take a quick look at the evolution of marriage. Pair bonding and raising children is as old as humanity itself. With the rise of sedentary agricultural societies

The history of marriage...

 That I'm this uber-endurance guy? As I stand here today talking to you guys, I've been running for the grand sum of five years. And a year before that I was a pack-a-day smoker, living a very sedentary lifestyle. What I take from this journey, from my journeys,

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 and most other sedentary traditional societies around the world. In those societies, older people are cared for. They are fed. They remain valuable. And they continue to live in the same hut or else in a nearby hut near their children,

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 linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles and those have been linked then with the rather alarming growing rates of obesity shown in these maps here and that obesity has also been triggering great increases in

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 farming societies where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years and many other sedentary traditional societies around the world in those societies all the people are generally cared for the affair they remain

Jared Diamond: Lessons...

 suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles. And those have been linked then with the rather alarming, growing rates of obesity, shown in these maps here, and that obesity has also been triggering

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 and people aren't moving more they're moving less and with greater difficulty and of course they're also having to manage the health consequences of the sedentary lifestyles that they've been

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 remaining sedentary and colored to merge with the surrounding vegetation although their lifestyles may vary all nymphs come equipped to hunt with large compound eyes and an extendable lower

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 sedentary than those in the wild have a daily sexercise to strengthen the leg muscles in preparation for the rigors of mating in the wild they'll mate with as many

Sedentary