Office Workers Who Sit For Longer Periods Of Time Need To Exercise

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Office workers who sit a lot can reverse the health perils of their modern sitting lifestyle by exercising just 20 minutes every day, a recent study has found.


Published In The Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology


Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the University of Sydney-led collaboration with the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the UK’s Loughborough University investigated the health outcomes linked with sitting.


Reducing Sitting Time Only Wouldn’t Be Enough


Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, from the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health mentioned that Reducing sitting would be a good beginning though it is not enough.
In the study, sitting time was associated constantly with both overall early mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality in the least physically active groups, those doing less than 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity each week.