With most of us now spending 9+ hours a day sitting down, here is looking at how our sedentary modern lifestyle is fast becoming a ticking health time bomb! Are you sitting comfortably? You might not be that comfortable by the time you finish reading this article, because spending too much time perched on your posterior could be seriously damaging your health.
Those prolonged periods of inactivity increase your risk of obesity and cause a long list of other conditions including heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, muscular and back issues, deep vein-thrombosis, brittle bones, depression and even dementia.
For example, in U.K, studies show that the average person spends a staggering 9 hours every day sitting down. That might be at work, in a car or on the sofa in front of the TV. Add another seven hours sleeping and that means most spend just one third of their time on their feet. A new campaign has now been started, which aims....
