Sedentary office workers, including busy HR practitioners, may want to stand up to absorb some provocative news published in the online medical journal BMJ Open: Most Americans could live two years longer on average if they’d spend less than three hours a day sitting.
The study’s lead author didn’t mince words when describing the seriousness of this issue. “Sitting is a dangerous risk factor for early death, on par with smoking and being obese,” Peter Katzmarzyk, a researcher at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, recently told USA Today.
