even if you exercise, spending too much time on your tush
still takes a major toll on your heart. [1]
Let me be specific: you can’t just exercise a couple of times a week and expect to make up for 5 straight days of sitting, according to the American Heart Association (AHA) panel.
Just How Big of a Problem is Sitting?
Deborah Rohm Young, chair of the AHA panel that wrote the new advisory, said:
“Based on existing evidence, we found that U.S. adults are sedentary for about six to eight hours a day.”
The older people get, the more time they’re likely to spend sitting. Young said: