Studies suggest that spending hours in a chair can cause all kinds of damage to your body, and even shorten your lifespan.
61 months ago

"Sitting is a place where you can find heaven in your joints and in your back," she says. "It's not sitting that's causing the pain, it's how you're sitting.
73 months ago

A new study of older women in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that sitting for long stretches of time increases the odds of an untimely death.
128 months ago

A body at rest can lead to serious health problems like obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and even heart disease and stroke.
62 months ago

Sitting for long periods was associated with worse health outcomes including heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.
66 months ago

Research has found that too much sitting has been linked to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and other health...
8 months ago

Total daily sitting time increased among adolescents and adults from 2007 to 2016, from seven hours per day to just over eight for teenagers,...
65 months ago

Sitting is nice, a simple and enduring pleasure, unless it's forced upon you by illness or disability. This is a shame, because it's also killing me, you and...
10 months ago

A study found that even light-intensity movement for 30 minutes a day can reduce the risk of death incurred by sitting.
68 months ago

Researchers from the American Cancer Society have found that women who spend 6 hours or more of free time sitting per day have a 10% greater...
110 months ago