The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
A MET hour, a MET, just for people who don't know, is a metabolic equivalent. So we're exerting about 1.3 METs sitting here talking. If we were sitting here being quiet, it would be about one MET. Walking really briskly would be about five METs.
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Actually, those were metabolic equivalent minutes. The ratio between one's metabolic rate while physically active and at rest.