The overall time people spend sitting has health experts worried. Research has linked sedentary behavior to an increased risk for obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and more.

In news that we shouldn’t take sitting down, a study just published in JAMA finds that people who stay seated for long hours at work and home are at much higher risk of developing dementia than ...

Don't just sit there. It may be killing you. Getting off the couch and moving more might lengthen your life, as well as decrease your risk of dementia, physical disabilities and other serious ...

For the typical person, more than half of their day is spent sitting. The normal office worker sits a shocking 15 hours every single day. And people who have long commutes, even more. This is ...

We know sitting is bad for our health, but a recent study helps explain why. People who sit too long have signs of "subclinical injury" — not bad enough to necessitate immediate treatment but ...

A study of more than 200,000 Australians adds to the growing body of evidence that people who sit the most die the soonest. It also found that you can't exercise this effect away, though exercise ...

Although all the reasons why prolonged sitting is unhealthy aren't known, Katzmarzyk speculates that "when people sit, they deactivate the large muscles in their legs, and this has a host of ...

But too much sitting increasingly looks like a health risk all its own. Researchers at Northwestern University say that for people 60 and older, each additional hour a day spent sitting increases ...