Overnutrition is associated with a sedentary lifestyle and the continuous availability of food in more affluent countries.
At the same time, aging of the population, sedentary lifestyle and spiraling rates of certain diseases have increased the use of these drugs.
The growing prevalence of the disease is often attributed to urbanization, fast-food diets, smoking and sedentary lifestyles characteristic of Western societies.
We should do away with the sedentary lifestyle.
Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle has been linked with an increased risk of heart disease.
Only 3 percent of the town's land is set aside for children to walk and play safely, a situation that fuels a sedentary lifestyle.
Treadmill desks have gotten attention amid research findings about the negative effects of sedentary lifestyles and jobs that leave workers sitting all day.
Other risk factors include habits such as eating too many calories and living a sedentary lifestyle.
Liang Xiaofeng, deputy chief of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said a modern sedentary lifestyle contributed to the sharp rise in diabetes in China.
Experts point to increasingly sedentary lifestyles and lack of access to fresh, healthy foods as a reason for this rapid increase.
Yeah, it wasn't just the sedentary lifestyle that got me fat. It was all the damn junk food too.
Most of our health problems are caused by our sedentary lifestyles.
For the study, 77 employees from Geneva University with a sedentary lifestyle were recruited to take only the stairs over a three-month period, Swissinfo reported.
I'm not suggesting a sedentary lifestyle, after all.
Meanwhile, our high-calorie, sedentary lifestyles seem to be leading many of us to disaster – particularly those of us who are strangers to the fluffy-towelled environment of the gym.
Kidney stones are known to be caused by a sedentary lifestyle and a low-fibre diet.
The study of 2,401 twins found that a sedentary lifestyle raises the risk of a range of problems from heart disease to cancer and appears to play a key role in the ageing process.
Most of us need to improve our sedentary lifestyle. Get outside for half an hour, and walk off some of that excess energy – for the sake of your physical and mental health.
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