Personnel Today reports on Research by Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University “The researchers discovered that 69,276 deaths could have been avoided if adults had reduced the amount of time they spent sitting each day. This amounted to 11.6% of deaths in 2016.
Figures on sedentary behaviour were taken from the Health Survey for England 2012, which found 30% of adults in England spent at least six hours sedentary each day on weekdays. This increased to 37% of adults on weekends.”

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