Thursday, February 20, 2014

OMG, it's a war against gravity!!!----------------Don't just sit there! It could be harmful later in life

Don't just sit there! It could be harmful later in life:

"Sitting too much, sometimes called sitting disease, may increase the risk of disability in people over age 60, a new study suggests.

Adults this age spend an average of two-thirds of their waking time being sedentary -- roughly nine hours a day, the research showed.

 Every additional hour adults over age 60 spend sitting increases by 50% their risk of being disabled for activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing and walking, says the study's lead author Dorothy Dunlop, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Too many people "have very low levels of activity," she says."

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