Hourly movement breaks of just five minutes each seem to offer the best balance between feasibility and effectiveness for mitigating the health harms of prolonged sitting, suggests a large study ...

Research suggests that prolonged sitting is unhealthy. It is a key risk factor for obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers. Moving throughout the day can improve your health and may ...

Regular, light walking breaks can lead to blood-pressure benefits for people who live a sedentary lifestyle, according to new research. Although the breaks taken in this small study did not have a ...

THURSDAY, July 2, 2026 (HealthDay News) -- Movement breaks are a potentially feasible and effective public health strategy to reduce the harms of prolonged sedentary behavior, according to a study ...

From head to toe, our bodies are adapting to accommodate our devices. A majority of U.S. workers spend most of each weekday seated and looking at screens. We’ve thereby put ourselves in the midst of a ...

Researchers have identified exactly how many movement breaks you need — and can realistically stick with — to counteract the negative effects of spending too much time in a chair. Extended periods of ...

The Body Electric challenge has inspired tens of thousands of listeners to incorporate more movement into their days. For some, this new lifestyle... How short gentle movement breaks transformed one ...