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• “Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV and is more treacherous than parachuting.” He concludes simply, “We are sitting ourselves to death.”
• Many studies are also demonstrating that the effects of long-term sitting aren’t reversible through exercise or other good habits. This means that if you eat well and work out religiously for an hour a day, but then sit for all or most of your other waking hours, the sitting behavior will chip away or even cancel out the benefits of all your exerci...
• An Australian study conducted in 2008 reports that every hour of television watched after age 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.
• Dr. Levine claims that for every hour we sit, we lose two hours of life.6
• the World Health Organization ranks physical inactivity—sitting too much—as the fourth biggest preventable killer globally, causing an estimated 3.2 million deaths annually.