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Technology is the main culprit.<\/em><\/p>\n

People are spending more time sitting than ever a study published in JAMA found. This is highly driven by how much time people are spending on computers which has increased in recent years.<\/p>\n

The study found that sitting time increased about an hour a day for teenagers and adults between 2007 and 2016. It also found that teens spend an average 8.2 hours a day sitting and adults about 6.4 hours.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t appear that all technology is to blame though. Yin Cao, senior researcher acknowledges that TV isn\u2019t behind the increase.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor TV watching time, we found that in most age groups the trend has been stable over the past 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cao\u2019s team looked at responses from more than 51,000 participants in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2001 and 2016.<\/p>\n

These surveys by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention track health trends among Americans.<\/p>\n

What the results showed was that people are sitting down browsing around on their computers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we looked into computer use outside school or work, we saw a dramatic increase for all age groups,\u201d Cao said.<\/p>\n

The time children and teens spend on the computer outside of school and work for an hour or more appears to have gone up the most, rising from 43% to 56% among children and rising from 53% to 57% for teens.<\/p>\n

Increased time sitting has been associated with increased risk of obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and premature death the study authors pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results were a little disappointing in general,\u201d says Cao. \u201cThey are definitely a signal that we need to increase public awareness and knowledge about the health impact of prolonged sitting. And we are not there yet \u2014 from our data, we haven\u2019t even started yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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