Latest research and evidence in real life points conclusively towards the fact that sitting, or plain inactivity, characterized by lack of muscular contraction, is an independent risk factor to developing lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, disc prolapse, hernia, blood pressure, arthritis, cancer and everything in between. Sitting is the new smoking. Just like smoking was and remains an independent risk factor to obesity, heart disease, cancer and everything in between, so is sitting.
