In contemporary society, prolonged sitting has been engineered into our lives across many
settings, including transportation, the workplace, and the home. There is new evidence that …

Modern human environments are vastly different from those of our forebears. Rapidly
advancing technology in transportation, communications, workplaces, and home …

Sedentary behavior, as distinct from a lack of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, is an
emerging health risk behavior for the development of chronic diseases. Examples of …

It is not uncommon for people to spend one-half of their waking day sitting, with relatively
idle muscles. The other half of the day includes the often large volume of nonexercise …

Moderate-to vigorous-intensity physical activity has an established preventive role in
cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and some cancers. However, recent …

Background High volumes of sitting time are associated with an elevated risk of type 2
diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and with adverse cardiometabolic risk profiles …

Context Whether physical activity attenuates the association of total daily sitting time with
cardiovascular disease and diabetes incidence is unclear. This systematic review and meta …

Too much sitting is now understood to be a health risk that is additional to, and distinct from,
too little exercise. There is a rapidly-accumulating evidence on relationships of prolonged …

Even when adults meet physical activity guidelines, sitting for prolonged periods can
compromise metabolic health. Television (TV) time and objective measurement studies …

Our modern day society encompasses an ecological niche in which sedentary behaviour,
labour‐saving devices and energy dense foods have become the new reference of living …