Prolonged sitting is dangerous to health

A recent study shows link between prolonged sitting and increased mortality.

The research team from the "Pennington Biomedical Research Center" proves in its study that prolonged sitting is very negative impact on health. The long-term study with more than 17,000 study participants shows that sitting increases the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and other diseases. This connection could even be found among the physically active subjects. This observation is important because it shows that long hours of passive sitting cannot be compensated with occasional exercise.

Moderate exercise is therefore an extremely important factor for a healthy life in today's society.

 Read here the entire study.  PDF (1.1 MB)