Saturday, June 28, 2014

Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day—and what you can do about it - Quartz

Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day—and what you can do about it - Quartz

It’s been linked to cancerdiabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In
this latest meta-analysis, Daniela Schmid and Michael F. Leitzmann of
the University of Regensburg in Germany analyzed 43 observational
studies, amounting to more than 4 million people’s answers to questions
about their sitting behavior and cancer incidences. The researchers
examined close to 70,000 cancer cases and found that sitting is
associated with a 24% increased risk of colon cancer, a 32% increased
risk of endometrial cancer, and a 21% increased risk of lung cancer. 

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