Thirty Days To A Slimmer You

Researchers are finding that sitting down is dangerous to your health because you stop burning fat.

There's a solution: stand up.

Overweight? Standing May Be Solution reports: "'It was hard to believe at first,' said Marc Hamilton, associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia and leader of the research team. He said the team didn't expect to find a strong signal when they began researching what happens to fat when we remain seated. But the effect, both in laboratory animals and humans, turned out to be huge.

The solution, Hamilton said, is to stand up and 'putter.'"

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