Among women with more than 10 hours/day of sedentary behavior or less than 5 hours/day of light-intensity physical activity, risk increased exponentially.

Adolescents who replaced just half an hour of sedentary behaviors, such as sitting on the couch or spending time at the computer, each day for moderate-to-vigorous physical activity or sleep may lower ...

During pregnancy, women can reduce their risk of developing a hypertensive disorder by nearly 30% by limiting sedentary time ...

During pregnancy, women can reduce their risk of developing a hypertensive disorder by nearly 30% by limiting sedentary time to no more than eight hours a day and increasing light, everyday physical ...

Indeed, sedentary behavior has been shown to be a major impediment to health and contributor to illness and disease. We already know that exercise and physical activity is important for cardiac health ...

Recent research by Dr. Michelle Segar and colleagues (2026) examined all-or-nothing thinking as a barrier to developing a ...

Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 520,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $2.59 billion in annual productivity losses.

As global temperatures rise, people are becoming less physically active, and this shift could lead to hundreds of thousands ...

Students are not getting enough sleep and because of that, they may not be exercising enough either. In 2023, only about a quarter of high school students in the U.S. met the guideline for daily ...

The number one habit to break to reduce the risk of dementia is physical inactivity. A sedentary lifestyle reduces blood flow to the brain and may increase inflammation. For a healthier brain, get in ...