“Sitting is the new smoking,” according to Dr. James Levine, of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative. Levine is the author of, Get Up! Why Your Chair Is Killing You ...

In 2016, the “sitting is the new smoking” was written in the British Journal of general practice. The idea among the medical community has been around longer. Sitting is the new smoking became popular ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) -- Sitting at their desks is about the last thing workers would do in Dr. James Levine's office of the future. Instead of being sedentary in front of their computers, they'd ...

So does Dr. James Levine, a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher in Rochester, Minn., who rattled off two sobering statistics: 90 percent of Americans don't work out regularly and at least half of workers ...