{"id":570954,"date":"2026-05-07T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:33:07","slug":"what-sitting-all-day-does-to-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570954\/","title":{"rendered":"What sitting all day does to your body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4JTJNMQ7ONCBDIGCAUVKJJOXRM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cExercise is good for you\u201d is about as groundbreaking as florals for spring. But the flip side of that somewhat obvious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/04\/21\/chatbot-medical-advice-accurate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">health advice<\/a> is also true: Spending too much time sitting isn\u2019t great for you.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7GLWDEJ2QZGKRIU2E2TXKG7WBY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">We\u2019ve all read the headlines claiming that \u201csitting is the new smoking\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2022\/09\/14\/meet-active-couch-potato-how-sitting-all-day-can-erase-workout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">even if you exercise<\/a>. It seems as if there\u2019s a regular cadence of research coming out to suggest that anyone with a sedentary lifestyle or occupation is doomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cExercise is good for you\u201d is about as groundbreaking as florals for spring. But the flip side of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}