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Yes, sitting too long can kill you, even if you exercise

People who sit for less than 30 minutes at a time have the lowest risk of early death, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The research team used hip-mounted accelerometers to track sedentary time in nearly 8,000 adults for an average of four years.

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On average, sedentary behavior, or sitting, accounted for about 12.3 hours of an average 16-hour waking day.

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As sedentary time increased, so did the risk of early death by any cause regardless of:

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People who frequently sat for more than 90 minutes at a stretch had a nearly two-fold greater risk of death than those that sat less.

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Exercise guidelines are precise, we need similar guidelines for sitting.

Keith Diaz

Lead author of the new study and an associate research scientist in the Columbia University Department of Medicine

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It’s recommended that you take a break every half hour. This one behavior change could reduce your risk of death.

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