Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it
- Written by Keith Diaz, Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University
Researchers have long known that sitting at your desk hour after hour is an unhealthy habit.Morsa Images/Digital Vision via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting, take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. That’s the key finding of a new...