sedentary time

Too much sitting will harm your health

lborkowski | January 28, 2015

Evidence has been accumulating about the toll of prolonged sitting, and a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows just how harmful sedentary habits can be. University of Toronto researcher Aviroop Biswas and colleagues performed a quantitative meta-analyses on 41 studies that measured adults’ sedentary time and reported health outcomes directly associated with death, disease, or use of healthcare services. Their findings won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been following this research. “Greater sedentary time was found to be positively…