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2010届高考二轮英语复习专项训练：完形填空（二十一） Passage 21 Heres a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be 1 for your health. And it doesnt matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the overall number of hours it 2 . Research is preliminary, but several studies 3 people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die. In an editorial 4 this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define 5 activity to highlight the dangers of sitting. While health officials have issued guidelines 6 minimum amounts of physical activity, they havent suggested people try to limit how much time they spend in a seated 7 . After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send 8 signals, Ekblom-Bak said. She explained that genes regulating the amount of glucoseand fat in the 9 start to shut down. Even for people who 10 , spending long stretches of time sitting at a desk is still harmful. Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization, said people who exercise every day — 11 still spend a lot of time sitting — might get more benefit if that exercise were spread across the day, 12 in a single bout. That wasnt 13 news for Aytekin Can, 31, who works at a London financial company, and spends most of his days sitting 14 a computer. Several evenings a week, Can also teaches jiu jitsu, a Japanese martial art 15 wrestling, and also does Thai boxing. Im sure there are some detrimental 16 of staying still for too long, but I hope that being 17 when I can helps, he said. I wouldnt want to think the sitting could be 18 dangerous. Still, in a study published last year that track