Thursday, January 20, 2011

The health hazards of a sedentary lifestyle not mitigated by exercise

"The latest findings, published this week in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, indicate that the amount of leisure time spent sitting in front of a screen can have such an overwhelming, seemingly irreparable impact on one’s health that physical activity doesn’t produce much benefit."


HEALTH   | January 12, 2011 
Well: The Hazards of the Couch 
By RONI CARYN RABIN 
Increasingly, research is focusing not on how much exercise people get -- but on how much of their time is spent in sedentary activity, and the harm that it does. 

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