(Post-Gazette) People who sit for most of the day aren't doing their hearts any favors

If you spend nearly all your working day sitting at a desk, as 50 to 70 percent of Americans do, you may be shortening your life.

“Sitting is the kiss of death,” said Ron DeAngelo, director of sports performance training at UPMC’s Center for Sports Medicine. “We weren’t designed to sit. In prehistoric days, we never sat.”

People who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to get a heart attack than people who sit for less than three hours a day, according to a study published in July by researchers at Louisiana State University. Active people live about two years longer.

Read it all and there is another article on this from the BBC here.