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News / time spent sitting
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Nov 30, 2013
How much time do you think you spend sitting each day? One study says you’re wrong.
Read more →An interesting study looked at quantifying the amount of time people sit in three situations including during work hours, leisure time during a work day and during leisure days. Scientists were looking to validate self-reported measures against objective measures. To get impartial measures, they outfitted 26 office workers with accelerometers and customized software to obtain accurate, objective, measures of movement over a seven-day period. After the seven-day period scientists had the workers fill out a questionnaire to self-report sitting time, retrospectively. Scientists were looking for total sitting time and longest continuous time with uninterrupted sitting during the three situations. What...