Study Finds No Association Between Sitting And Diabetes.

reports on a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine finding “no significant link between sitting and the incidence of diabetes.” Lead researcher Emmanuel Stamatakis, PhD, MSc, associate professor from the Charles Perkins Center at University of Sydney in Australia, said, “Sitting has attracted a lot of publicity in recent years for being as dangerous as smoking and for being harmful regardless of how physically active people are,” but “this is one of the very few long-term studies to investigate whether there is a link between sitting behaviors and risk of development of diabetes.” The study was based on survey responses from “a long-term study completed by 4,811 middle-aged and older London-based office workers who did not initially have diabetes or cardiovascular disease.” http://www.healio.com/family-medicine/diabetes/news/online/%7B7393e768-4bcf-458a-8728-d12e6142ebee%7D/long-periods-of-sitting-may-not-lead-to-diabetes