"The groundwork of all happiness is health." - Leigh Hunt

Why sitting may be dangerous in your health

Interrupting sedentary time with short bouts of exercise can reduce the risks of inactivity.

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Dr Lee was among the many experts contributing to a special issue of the British Journal of Health and Exercise. The Lancet Commemorating the 2012 Olympic Games in London. He and his colleagues drew on reports of several large observational studies conducted world wide wherein participants answered questions on their lifestyle, including their level of physical activity, after which over a period of years. I followed them to see how they work. When researchers compared the health outcomes of inactive participants — those that did lower than 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week — to those that exercised more, they found that only inactivity was related to an increased risk of breast and colon cancer. Calculated for risk. Heart disease and diabetes. They calculated that inactivity is chargeable for greater than five million deaths worldwide annually, the identical variety of deaths brought on by smoking.

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