Don't just sit there! It could be harmful later in life:
"Sitting too much, sometimes called sitting disease, may increase the risk of disability in people over age 60, a new study suggests.
Adults this age spend an average of two-thirds of their waking time being sedentary -- roughly nine hours a day, the research showed.
Every additional hour adults over age 60 spend sitting increases by 50% their risk of being disabled for activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing and walking, says the study's lead author Dorothy Dunlop, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Too many people "have very low levels of activity," she says."
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