Sitting down for prolonged periods can have a profound ... both contribute to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. People are becoming more sedentary because it's what ...

In news that we shouldn’t take sitting down, a study just published in JAMA finds that people who stay seated for long hours at work and home are at much higher risk of developing dementia than ...

A 2017 article suggests people who spend long periods sitting down for work have an almost 1.4 times greater chance of dying prematurely after 12 years than those who do not. Sitting all day and ...

But asking someone to sit down is not inherently rude ... The result is that the rest of the people at her table spend most of the two hours we have to play sitting and waiting.

My mom and dad loved to throw parties. People would sit on the edge of it with their feet dangling into the pit or get right down into it,” said Ms. Dwelley, who now lives in Camden, Maine.

Anyone who spends over six hours a day sitting down is being urged to have one drink after a study of more than 10,000 people in the USA. And it could be better for you than exercise. What's more ...