Natracure Blog — move more

Do you sit more than you stand most days? We have become a sitting culture. We sit in our homes, in our cars, in our offices, and even in drive-throughs to get dinner! Then we sit to eat our meals and to watch TV – often at the same time. The problem is that our bodies are designed to be hunter-gatherers. We are built to move. Now research shows that prolonged sitting has emerged as a new health scourge. Headlines warn “Sitting is the new smoking.” Health experts have started to refer to inactivity as the “sitting epidemic”, or “sitting...