Sitting Can Be More Dangerous than Smoking Study Shows...Daily Mail

[Stuart G]

3. I also read about diabetes from these studies..

One day I started reading a number of these studies about sitting on our asses. One ...which I cannot link to, sorry, said that by getting up and walking around, say 5 to 10 minutes an hour...can help to regulate insulin levels. The sitting itself, causes creation of bad levels of insulin. I think that was a follow up to the original 2008 /2009 study.


Review looked at 18 studies with 794,000 adults in U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan

Prolonged sitting can increase Type 2 diabetes risk

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/10/15/sit-diabetes-type-2.html

CBC News

Posted: Oct 15, 2012 9:28 AM ET




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