A recent study on the effects of prolonged sitting has confirmed what we already intuitively know. Sitting too much, a.k.a, a sedentary lifestyle, is just not good for your health or longevity.
The landmark study suggested that prolonged bouts of sitting time and a lack of whole-body muscular movement are strongly associated with obesity, abnormal glucose metabolism, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hear disease and cancer
In a nutshell, the researchers found out two things. First, the more you sit, the higher your relative risk for health problems (the ones mentioned above) goes up. They also found that long periods of sitting can actually neutralize the health gains that you receive from regular exercise.
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