Sedentary behavior: Understanding and influencing adults' prolonged sitting time

摘要

The physical, economic and social environments of developed and developing countries continue to change rapidly. Many of these changes - particularly in technologies for personal transportation, communication, workplace productivity and domestic entertainment - have been associated with much-reduced human energy-expenditure requirements. In this context, too much sitting now may be seen as distinct from too little exercise. Understanding and influencing sedentary behaviors as distinct health risks have recently received considerable research attention, not least within the pages of Preventive Medicine (Morabia and Costanza, 2010).