You might want to stand up for this: Sitting will kill you. You might say, "Joanne, that's old news. Where were you a few months ago when that was first reported?" My real answer is, "Sitting on my couch eating Thin Mints."
There's no question that regular exercise is essential to health. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, we've had to exert ourselves -- often quite strenuously -- to get food, find shelter and simply survive.
By Amanda Schupak for YouBeauty.com How many hours do you spend at the computer every day? Eight? Ten? Twelve? Taking a seat should be synonymous w...
Think you spend too much time sitting? You may move more than you think. That was Dr. James Levine's surprising finding on a recent "experiment" hi...
By Corrie Pikul Australian researchers pit the vice-du-jour against the "silent killer" -- with surprising results. As you're no doubt sick of h...
In a previous post, I discussed the negative effects of prolonged sitting and the inability of exercise to undo the damage. A new study now quantifies the association between sedentary behavior and diabetes.
Emmy Award-winning doctor, television host and author Dr. Oz talked about why sitting can be so detrimental to your health when he joined me on Monday...
If just standing more and sitting less can add years to life and life to years, then we owe a lot of ill health to the seats of our pants. The solution is for us each to incorporate strategies into our daily routines that allow us to get up and move about -- at least a little, at least intermittently.
By now you've heard plenty about how bad sitting is for our health. And a recent study has shed even more light on why we really do need to sit less a...
Could your job be making you pack on the pounds? Maybe so, according to a new survey from the folks at CareerBuilder.com. The findings not only lis...
A growing body of scientific study, "inactivity research," shows that prolonged sitting can lead to serious health problems, regardless of whether you exercise and are at fighting weight.
The "progress" afforded by the Industrial Revolution has provided a natural experiment demonstrating the catastrophic effects of sedentary life. If one considers our genetic wiring, perfected over hundreds of thousands of generations, this all makes perfect sense.
AARP reports that there is "mounting evidence" that sitting increases our risk of cancer, obesity, diabetes and early death "even for people who exercise daily."
Consensus is not always an easy thing to come by in the health and wellness worlds, but if there's one topic that inspires seemingly little debate, it...
San Francisco is poised to become the latest in a string of cities to adopt a law making it a crime to sit on the sidewalk. While it is the case that ...
LONDON — Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods &nd...
