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The brain is a glucose-hungry organ. If this energy supply is disrupted, it can impair and even damage brain cells.
Why we need more physical activity in the classroom.
New research shows not all sitting is bad for our health, so long as you’re active at other times of the day.
We’ve known for some time that too much sitting increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease. But until now it’s been unclear how much standing during the work day may counter this risk.
As part of the advance publicity for the forthcoming Apple Watch, Apple chief executive Tim Cook has disclosed that it has a feature that prompts people to stand up every hour. “Sitting is the new cancer…
Since Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair of 1925 the formula for comfortable seating has been known: create a right-angle, open it up a tad, and tip it backward, so that the seat places the bottom lower than…
Chairs are a health hazard – that is according to Galen Cranz, U.C. Berkley Professor of Architecture and author of the book, The Chair: rethinking body, culture, and design. She states in a 1999 article…
Australians should aim for around 60 minutes of physical activity per day, double the previous recommendation, according the new national physical activity guidelines, published today. And for the first…
Intervention programs that use various techniques to encourage office workers to sit less and move more are more effective…
Men who spend more than fours a day hours sitting down are more likely to experience chronic disease than their less sedentary…
Researchers have developed a new office chair “sitting pad” that sounds an alarm when its owner has been sitting too long. Prolonged sitting can contribute to musculoskeletal problems such as back pain…
Workers who sat for 11 hours or more a day were 40% more likely to die within three years compared with people who sat for…
Adults who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are at a 40% increased risk of dying in the next three years compared with those who sit for fewer than four hours, the largest study of ageing in the Southern…
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Professor and Laboratory Head of Physical Activity, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor Health Behaviour Dynamics of People, Places and Systems, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Behavioural Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, University of Victoria
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Winthrop Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher, Physical Activity Research Unit, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Brunel University London
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Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University
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Senior Research Fellow Active Living, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct), Charles Sturt University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Stirling
