You could be doing your brain a solid without realizing it.

In some cultures, sitting on the ground is common, but that tends not to be the case in the U.S. — should it be?

Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent. A systematic ...

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Passive activities such as watching television have been linked to worse memory and cognitive skills, while 'active sitting' ...

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The average American adult spends more than half of their day sitting. Whether it’s working at a desk, commuting, or watching TV, most people lead highly sedentary lifestyles. Studies show that ...

Sitting for too long damages the heart, may harm the brain, and increases risk of death. Researchers aren’t even sure that exercise is enough to make up for the harms of sitting too much. But taking a ...

Sitting Disease. It sounds like some mysterious condition you’d bring back from an exotic vacation, but it’s actually a modern homegrown ailment caused by going from the breakfast table to the ...

To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting, take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. That’s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Medicine & ...

Turns out grandma was right. Most of us are too busy trying to lose weight and achieve optimal gut health to care too much about our posture. But — according to Kristianne Egbert, certified ...