The average person sits for more than 6-8 hours. While we can't avoid sitting (and sometimes it's necessary), most of us do too much and continuous sitting can increase your risk for disases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia, and early death. In this episode we discuss the problems with sitting, how it affects your metabolism, can your exercise counteract sitting and provide you with tips on how to reduce your sitting.

References cited in this podcast:

Association of Sitting Time with Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in High-Income, Middle-Income and Low-Income Countries: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2793521

Device-measured physical activity, sedentary time, and risk of all-cause mortality: An individual participant analysis of four prospective cohort studies: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/22/1457

Breaking Up Prolonged Sitting Reduces Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Responses: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/35/5/976/38374/Breaking-Up-Prolonged-Sitting-Reduces-Postprandial