Walk around will definitely add additional years into your life

The new study claims that, "Sitting less could extend your life. You can extend your life span by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day."

If you want to boost your life expectancy by two years, then the researchers from the Pennington biomedical Research Centre have produced a new study that comes as a best solution to add to your life span.

The new study claims that, "Sitting less could extend your life. You can extend your life span by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day."

Previous studies have related excessive sitting to chronic diseases like diabetes and death from heart disease or stroke. But extended life span is one of the attention-grabbing finding.

This study was published in the online journal BMJ Open. The study says that adults spend about 7.7 hours per day in sedentary behaviour.

Co-author Peter Katzmarzyk of the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre said, "Yes, this would be a challenge.  Given the amount of time most people spend behind their desks at work. On the other hand, there are many strategies to reduce sitting time, such as standing more at work using a standing desk or treadmill desk, having walking meetings, going to see someone down the hall rather than emailing them etc."

In study was based on a comparison of population health and lifestyle statistics with polling data on inactivity. Using a statistical model, the researchers found that if people sat for less than three hours a day, the average life expectancy in this country would be 80.5 years instead of the current 78.5 years.

According to the author, the research doesn't show that excessive sitting causes early death. But yes it definitely causes several health hazards.

Katzmarzyk said, "We now have some physiological studies showing that when you are sitting, your leg muscles (the largest in the body) are completely inactive, which causes problems with how you handle your blood sugar and how you handle cholesterol."

Earlier it was in 2010, an Australian Professor Dunstan of Baker IDI in Melbourne found television viewing reduced life expectancy at birth by 1.8 years in men and 1.5 Years in women.

Katzmarzyk concluded saying, "Life expectancy is a population statistic and it does not apply to individuals. Plus the study used U.S population data and could not be applied to other countries."