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If you most of your days sitting at school, work, at a computer or stretched out on a couch at home, you may be up to two years off your life. It is common knowledge that a sedentary lifestyle the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and obesity, and can in premature death. Many people they can for sitting around by walking, playing sports or going to the gym. Unfortunately, this might not so. A new study just in the journal 'Annals of Internal Medicine' the effect on our longevity from sitting for long periods of time cannot be through exercise. Even 60 minutes of daily exercise may not be enough.

The study is from Dr David Alter and his colleagues at Toronto University. Dr Alter and his team 47 studies that different groups of people, who notes on how long they down each day and how much they exercised. They that the most sedentary groups had a 24% increased chance of dying during the course of the study than the least sedentary ones. This the case even though those who sat a lot also did 60 minutes of daily exercise. Dr Alter writes: "Reducing your sit-down time by 2-3 hours each day by standing up at your desk, taking frequent breaks to and walk, or watching TV…on your feet may better than an expensive, crowded, smelly gym and just what the doctor ."