It may looking relaxing and healthy now, but sitting in a chair for long stretches is not good for you especially among the senior citizen set, studies have shown.
It may looking relaxing and healthy now, but sitting in a chair for long stretches is not good for you especially among the senior citizen set, studies have shown. ( Photo: Andrea Piacquando/Wikimedia Commons)

Smoking is still a lot worse for you than sitting, but studies show that the longer you sit the more health problems you’ll have. And those under the desk leg exercisers you see on tv infomericals? They actually do help.

Sitting May Not be the “New Smoking,” But It’s Not Good for You
29 May 2026 | 07:53
Healthy Manhattan

In 2010, Mayo Clinic professor James Levine labeled sitting the new smoking, an overstatement with a kernel of truth.

For example, when one meta-analysis of sitting studies tried to quantify just how bad sitting is compared with smoking, smoking was definitely worse with 2,000 death per 100,000 person...

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