You could be doing your brain a solid without realizing it.

A growing body of evidence suggests that hours spent sitting at a desk or in front of screens may quietly be damaging your ...

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The average American adult spends more than half of their day sitting. Whether it’s working at a desk, commuting, or watching TV, most people lead highly sedentary lifestyles. Studies show that ...

Passive activities such as watching television have been linked to worse memory and cognitive skills, while 'active sitting' ...

Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent. A systematic ...

Sitting for too long damages the heart, may harm the brain, and increases risk of death. Researchers aren’t even sure that exercise is enough to make up for the harms of sitting too much. But taking a ...

Share on Pinterest Standing more isn’t enough to offset the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle and may raise the risk of circulatory diseases. Kristine Weilert/Stocksy United Sitting and ...

Sitting Disease. It sounds like some mysterious condition you’d bring back from an exotic vacation, but it’s actually a modern homegrown ailment caused by going from the breakfast table to the ...

Sitting at your desk for eight hours (or more) a day and heading to the gym in the evening to balance it out? Prolonged sitting, even with regular exercise, disrupts metabolism, slows blood flow, and ...