Sitting is the new smoking,” says Anup Kanodia, a physician and researcher at the Center for Personalized Health Care at Ohio State University‘s Wexner Medical Center.
As evidence, he cites an Australian study published in October 2012 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine that compared the two pastimes.
Every hour of TV that people watch, presumably while sitting, cuts about 22 minutes from their life span, the study’s authors calculated. By contrast, it’s estimated that smokers shorten their lives by about 11 minutes per cigarette. Â More information
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