Living a sedentary lifestyle, characterised by little to no physical activity and extended periods of sitting or lying down, can have numerous detrimental effects on our overall health and well-being.

Long hours of sitting can slow digestion and damage gut health. A gastro expert explains how desk jobs affect your body and ...

2 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3 School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, ...

Sedentary lifestyle or an inactive lifestyle is one of the biggest threats to your health. The sedentary lifestyle involves sitting or being at rest for too long with little or no exercise. Physical ...

1 Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Science, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Science and Health, ...

A new study suggests that reducing daily sedentary time can have a positive effect on the risk factors of lifestyle diseases in only three months. Spending just one hour less sitting daily and ...

Have you ever thought about how we got into this situation where most of us are typing, tapping or scrolling on screens much of the day? Well, NPR's special series Body Electric is investigating our ...

Sedentary lifestyle, is a lifestyle which has very little or no physical activity. In a sedentary lifestyle, the person is always sitting or lying down and feels lethargic to perform even the common ...

Three years ago, Women's Health was among the first to expose sitting disease. The gist: Too much inactivity can leave you prone to such deadly ailments as heart disease and obesity. The advice: Get ...