The increasingly common habit is bad for multiple systems in our body.

Even brief periods of light or moderate physical activity were associated with a reduced r ...

Each additional hour per day of prolonged sedentary behavior is associated with a higher hazard of cancer death.

Regularly sitting still for half an hour increases the risk of dying from cancer, new research suggests. A study of more than 90,000 Britons showed that routinely spending more than 30 minutes ...

U.K. researchers found that each additional hour per day of prolonged, uninterrupted sitting was associated with about a 9% ...

A large-scale study has examined how sedentary behaviour may be linked to the risk of dying from cancer.

This article was originally published in Italian on Univadis. "To provide guidance to parents, educators, policymakers, researchers, and healthcare providers" ― this was the main objective of the ...

Although sedentary behavior may be an evolutionarily selected trait, it is still important to try to be physically active, says a new study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Sedentary behaviour, characterised by prolonged sitting or reclining with low energy expenditure, has emerged as a distinct risk factor for a range of adverse health outcomes in older adults, ...

Objective Energy-saving sedentary behaviour may be an evolutionarily selected trait that is no longer advantageous. We investigated the associations between genetic liability to sedentary behaviour ...

A new study suggests that just over an hour less sleep each night is linked to weight gain and an increase in sedentary ...