Is sitting a health risk factor?
Harvard School of Public Health recently tweeted, “How man y hours are you going to spend sitting down today?" Turns out this is an important health question as studies are finding the more you sit the higher your risk for diseases. A recent study has indicated that sitting less can add to your life. So how do you add years to your life? This study found that people, who sat for less than 3 hours a day, could add 2 years to their life span. Those that limited their TV viewing to less than 2 hours a day, added about 1.4 years to their life. It seems sitting is a health risk factor just like obesity is a health risk factor. So if you sit more, you die earlier? Not exactly but sitting more increases your risk of dying earlier. One of the authors for this study was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal ( Wall Street Journal blog ). The author, I-Min Lee noted how she is trying to be more active by jumping up and ...