How spending too much time SITTING DOWN kills 50,000 people and costs the NHS £700million ...
(WorldNews Health)

Inactivity is killing nearly 70,000 people in the UK every year, a study has found. Experts warn Britain runs on a `sitting-based economy` in which the vast majority of working adults spend their days bound to a desk. Some 30 per cent of us spend at least six hours a day seated during the week. But tellingly, at the weekend this figure goes up to 37 per cent, suggesting we are even lazier in our leisure time. Researchers at Queen`s University Belfast warned that so much sedentary behaviour is causing thousands of cases of heart disease, type two diabetes, cancer and even death. The academics, writing in the BMJ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, calculated the NHS is spending...