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Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study found.

Over almost a decade, average daily sitting time increased by roughly an hour, to about eight hours for U.S. teens and almost 6 1/2 hours for adults, according to the researchers. That includes school and work hours, but leisure-time computer use among all ages increased too.

By 2016, at least half of American kids and adults spent an hour or more of leisure time daily using computers. The biggest increase was among the oldest adults: 15% of retirement-aged adults reported using computers that often in 2003-04, soaring to more than half in 2015-16.

Most Americans of all ages watched TV or videos for at least two hours daily and that was mostly unchanged throughout the study, ranging from about 60% of kids aged 5 to 11, up to 84% of seniors.

“Everything we found is concerning,” said lead author Yin Cao, a researcher at Washington University’s medical school in St. Louis. “The overall message is prolonged sitting is highly prevalent,” despite prominent health warnings about the dangers of being too sedentary…. (Read more Click Here.) (Excerpt from Lindsey Tanner article in The Washington Times.)

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Dorothy
May 4, 2019

An hour on a treadmill or other cardio can also equal an hour of time spent on an electronic device when you bring your ear phones to the gym with you. Praying we will be shown ways to do what could be done on electronic devices and be less sedentary at the same time. God knows ways both can be used to keep our minds and bodies healthy. Praying for His knowledge and guidance. Let’s speak it to bring it into existence!

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