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DR LINDA FRIEDLAND
Dr Linda Friedland is an authority on executive and corporate
health, stress management and performance. For more
information visit www.lindafriedland.com

THE DANGERS
OF SITTING
Dr Linda Friedland, an authority on workplace health, explains the
potential impact of inactivity on your health.
ur lives are one big sit-fest; we
sit in our cars or commute on
the bus, at work we sit at our
computers, at home we sit for dinner,
and often socialising means sitting with
friends for coffee or a beer. Sitting is the
most underrated health threat of our
times but has recently been unmasked
as a major risk factor for early death
and chronic disease.

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When we sit, electrical activity in our leg
muscles shuts off. That muscular
activity is so i