Two Minute Healthy Buzz Every Friday you’ll receive a Two Minute Healthy Buzz video, offering inspiration and clarity with a dash of common sense. Here is your question today: True or False: If you go to the gym for an hour five days a week, but otherwise sit at a desk job, the time at the gym makes up for a long day of sitting. Where we once linked the amount of time spent watching TV and its sedentary effects to obesity and chronic health conditions, we are now looking at the broader picture; the time collectively spent sitting at all activities. Driving to work, sitting at your desk, sitting at the computer in the evening and sitting during leisure time is taking a very large toll on your health. When we add up all this time collectively, Americans sit on average 9 hours a day. In a 2012 study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, researchers reported that people spent an average of 64 hours a week sitting, whether or not they exercised each week. Unfortunately, it seems that outside of regularly scheduled exercise sessions, active people sit just as much as their couch-potato peers do. That’s more than nine hours a day of sitting, no matter how active they otherwise were. This is intriguing! Watch the rest of the post here: 
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