For many of us with office-based jobs, it's an unavoidable fact of life that we're spending hours of our day sitting down - and it's not doing us any favours. Researchers from the University of Leicester’s Sedentary Behaviour Research (LSBR) team have found that, on average, we sit for around nine to 10 hours per day, increasing our risk of mortality, as well as putting us at a higher chance of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
And the shorter-term effects of a sedentary lifestyle are impacting our neck and spine health, too - studies (such as this one, published in the British Medical Journal) show an inexorable link between sitting at work and neck and shoulder pain - and we all know that slouching over our laptops isn't doing our posture any good, either.
