Get Up! How a Sedentary Life Can Bring on an Early Death
What did they find?
Previous studies showed that adults normally sit for around nine to ten hours per day, but Diaz's higher results are likely due to the participants being at least middle-aged, and often older. Diaz gives another potential reason for the discrepancy, "It could also be partly due to the fact that we used an activity monitor to track sedentary time rather than using self-report."
The researchers also found that the average time spent sitting before getting up again was around 11.4 minutes.
