Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Office Workers Must Exercise for an Hour a Day to Counter Death Risk

From The Telegraph
Office workers must exercise for one hour a day to combat the deadly risk of modern working lifestyles, a major Lancet study has found. 
Research on more than one million adults found that sitting for at least eight hours a day could increase the risk of premature death by up to 60 per cent. 
Scientists said sedentary lifestyles were now posing as great a threat to public health as smoking, and were causing more deaths than obesity. 
They urged anyone spending hours at their desk to change their daily routine to take a five minute break every hour, as well as exercise at lunchtimes and evenings. ...