Sitting on the floor is still common in many cultures – but is it better for your health?
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Even if you exercise, sitting too much is linked to health risks from anxiety to diabetes. But this ‘invisible’ behaviour may pervade our lives even more under COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines.
It may not be such a bad habit after all.
Getting enough exercise to offset the health impacts of sitting might be easier than you think, new research shows.
Sitting has been maligned in recent years for its role in obesity and diabetes. Now, a recent study in older women suggests that sedentary behavior may also increase heart disease risk.
The transition from primary to secondary school can be tough for children socially and emotionally. Students also do less physical activity in secondary school, and need help with this transition too.
Sitting too much might be killing you – this is what you can do about it.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
Annoyed you don’t have a sit-stand desk? Spare a thought for those workers who have to stand all day: Standing may double the risk of heart disease.
The brain is a glucose-hungry organ. If this energy supply is disrupted, it can impair and even damage brain cells.
Why we need more physical activity in the classroom.
New research shows not all sitting is bad for our health, so long as you’re active at other times of the day.
We’ve known for some time that too much sitting increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease. But until now it’s been unclear how much standing during the work day may counter this risk.
As part of the advance publicity for the forthcoming Apple Watch, Apple chief executive Tim Cook has disclosed that it has a feature that prompts people to stand up every hour. “Sitting is the new cancer…
Since Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair of 1925 the formula for comfortable seating has been known: create a right-angle, open it up a tad, and tip it backward, so that the seat places the bottom lower than…
Chairs are a health hazard – that is according to Galen Cranz, U.C. Berkley Professor of Architecture and author of the book, The Chair: rethinking body, culture, and design. She states in a 1999 article…
Australians should aim for around 60 minutes of physical activity per day, double the previous recommendation, according the new national physical activity guidelines, published today. And for the first…
Intervention programs that use various techniques to encourage office workers to sit less and move more are more effective…
Men who spend more than fours a day hours sitting down are more likely to experience chronic disease than their less sedentary…
Researchers have developed a new office chair “sitting pad” that sounds an alarm when its owner has been sitting too long. Prolonged sitting can contribute to musculoskeletal problems such as back pain…
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Professor and Laboratory Head of Physical Activity, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Behavioural Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, University of Victoria
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Professor Health Behaviour Dynamics of People, Places and Systems, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity and Public Health, Loughborough University
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Research Associate in Physical Activity and Public Health, Loughborough University
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Physical activity researcher, Deakin University | Lecturer in science communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Design Anthropology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Researcher, Physical Activity Research Unit, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Winthrop Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Stirling