New study on prolonged sitting puts focus on employers
by john.stodder
Published: April 8,2012
Tags: American Medical Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, National Business Group on Health, University of Sydney
A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine implicating sedentary behavior for causing premature death might put more pressure on government and business to allow employees more time for standing up. The study of some 200,000 Australians age 45 and older showed that those who sat more than 11 hours a day had a [...]
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