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Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it

By Keith Diaz, Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting, take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. That’s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

We asked 11 healthy middle-aged and…

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