Spending too much time sitting down kills 50,000 Brits each year Inactivity is killing nearly 70,000 people in the UK every year, a study has found.
Experts warn Britain runs on a 'sitting-based economy' in which the vast majority of working adults spend their days bound to a desk.
Some 30 per cent of us spend at least six hours a day seated during the week.
But tellingly, at the weekend this figure goes up to 37 per cent, suggesting we are even lazier in our leisure time. The Daily Mail
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Experts warn Britain runs on a 'sitting-based economy' in which the vast majority of working adults spend their days bound to a desk.
Some 30 per cent of us spend at least six hours a day seated during the week.
But tellingly, at the weekend this figure goes up to 37 per cent, suggesting we are even lazier in our leisure time. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Direct healthcare costs of sedentary behaviour in the UK (open access) Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Sitting down for too long may be causing 70,000 UK deaths a year The Guardian
- Too much sitting time linked to thousands of deaths OnMedica
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