Technological advances and the habits of modern life have drastically reduced levels of physical activity around the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) now warns that inactivity and sedentary ...

Health experts say that sitting too much can raise our risk of dying early. I tried four things to make my workweek less sedentary including "exercise snacking" every hour. I'm going to keep up with: ...

Experts have recognized that active lifestyles favor lower breast cancer risk. However, despite this long-standing appreciation, the precise mechanistic link between breast cancer and exercise remains ...

More than 10 hours a day of sedentary behavior significantly increases the risk of dementia in older adults, a new study suggests. The study of nearly 50,000 adults in the UK Biobank shows that ...

Whether your job requires that you sit all day, or you find that you just don’t move about for hours at a time, a sedentary lifestyle can be unhealthy, and even shorten your life span. But a new study ...

This month’s article is a feature from my intern, Rachel Dickey, an interdisciplinary health sciences major from the University of Illinois. Keep reading to learn the importance of physical activity ...

In 2018, a study published in JAMA reported that one in four American adults sit for more than eight hours a day. However, other studies show that, on average, we sit daily for 7.7 hours. And, there ...

Metabolic diseases have reached epidemic proportions in our society, driven by a sedentary lifestyle coupled with circadian ...

Sedentary lifestyle has become the new norm. Whether it is the desk-bound jobs, screen-heavy routines, or a lack of time for ...

Women in a Chinese study who sat for more than six hours each day faced substantially higher odds of developing uterine fibroids before menopause, a new study has found. Overall, more sedentary women ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new analysis of previous studies ties too much sitting at the computer or lying around watching TV to a greater risk of depression. Based on dozens of studies covering ...

Moving helps your health—but did you know how much? Adding on to the truckload of studies linking sedentary behavior to significant health outcomes, like heart disease, metabolic syndrome, depression ...