Sitting is the new Smoking

When I was young, a lot of time and effort went into educating me, and my fellow students at school, on all of the many health risks of smoking. This was something that for our parents and especially our grandparents was largely unknown. Roll onto the late 1980s and early 1990s and the schools were filled with a mass publicity campaign surrounding the negative impact of smoking on your long term heath. I’ve heard it argued that sitting is the new smoking. Sitting is also something that has a number of currently unknown long term health risks associated with it.

Sitting as something…