May 28, 2013
The American College of Sports Medicine will be hosting their annual scientific meeting in Indianapolis, USA, this week, and there is a wealth of sedentary behaviour […]
June 18, 2013
Today’s guest post comes from PhD student Bethany Howard. You can find out more about Bethany at the bottom of this post. The study that she […]
September 9, 2013
From the American Journal of Preventive Medicine: BACKGROUND: Associations of sitting-time and physical activity with depression are unclear. PURPOSE: To examine concurrent and prospective associations between […]
October 1, 2013
Today’s post comes from Dr Dylan Cliff, a National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong (Australia). Many people interested in young people’s […]
October 28, 2013
On October 28 the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their media/screentime recommendations for children and youth, published in the journal Pediatrics. The paper includes recommendations for […]
December 18, 2013
SBRN members Sebastien Chastin and colleagues have recently published the results of the first round of their Sedentary Behaviour Taxonomy project. The abstract (via PLOS ONE): […]
December 18, 2013
SBRN members have recently compiled a list of 12 different validated sedentary behaviour questionnaires, which are now available on the SBRN website. The questionnaires have been […]
February 9, 2014
New paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The abstract: BACKGROUND: Desk-based office employees sit for most of their working day. To address […]
February 11, 2014
New study suggests that prolonged sitting is linked to excess mortality. From Stone Hearth Newsletter: Led by Cornell University nutritional scientist Rebecca Seguin, a new study […]