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Example sentences for "sedentary life"

  • Sedentary life, by enfeebling muscular movement and by inducing indigestion and constipation, brings on diarrhoea.

  • This is particularly true whenever the men have taken considerable vigorous exercise when they were young and then tried to settle down to the inactive habits of a sedentary life.

  • A family tendency, sedentary life, excesses in eating and drinking and very acid urine predispose.

  • The combination of intense application to business, over-indulgence in food and drink, with a sedentary life, seem particularly prone to induce the disease.

  • Sedentary life, irregular habits, high-grade wines and liquors, hot and highly seasoned and stimulating foods.

  • Many of those who live a sedentary life, and are much occupied with intellectual or business matters, are almost sure to take little or no exercise.

  • Cardiac neuroses are seen particularly in those who having had considerable exercise in earlier years, have settled down to a sedentary life in which there are few calls made upon their muscular system.

  • Certainly if a young man is going to live a sedentary life in his after years, it does not seem advisable for him deliberately to devote much time to muscular exercise during his growing years.

  • Survivals of their nomadic life in Asiatic steppes still persist among the Turks of Europe, after six centuries of sedentary life in the best agricultural land of the Balkan Peninsula.

  • This is characteristic of all mature and historically significant peoples who have risen to sedentary life, maintained their hold on a given territory, and, with increase of population, have widened their boundaries.

  • Conditions here encourage an early adoption of sedentary life, discourage wandering except for short periods, and facilitate the introduction of agriculture wherever conditions of climate and soil permit.

  • To offset the evils of a sedentary life, it is advisable to spend one hour daily, or at least 15 minutes, in some kind of vigorous physical exercises.

  • There are habits of body suited for an active life and others for a sedentary life.

  • The weak, feeble, timid man is condemned by nature to a sedentary life, he is fit to live among women or in their fashion.

  • A sedentary life is the source of tedium; when we walk a good deal we are never dull.


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