Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.com

Hello this is six minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Phil and I'm

George we all know how important exercise is to stay fit

and reduce the risk of heart disease. Do you exercise much Phil? I try to. I ride my bike at the weekend, but to be honest I do spend a lot of time

sitting down. Sitting too much is becoming an increasing problem in the modern world.

Maybe you take the bus or train to work, then sit

at a desk all day, then go home feeling tired and just sit in front of the television all evening

as well.

Added together, that's hours of sitting every single day.

In this program, we'll be finding out exactly how much sitting is too much.

And of course, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary.

But first are you sitting comfortably Phil because I have a question for you?

On average how many hours a day do British adults spend sitting down?

Is it A, 7 hours, B 9 hours, or C 12 hours?

I'll guess it's 7 hours. Okay, Phil, I'll guess it's seven hours.

Okay Phil I'll reveal the correct answer later.

Charlotte Edwardson is a professor of health and behavior studies who has investigated

the link between sitting and health problems in

her lab at Leicester University. Here she talks to BBC Radio 4 program

Inside Health. If we think about our daily activities, a lot of activities

are done sitting down. Movement in our everyday lives has really been engineered

out with advances in technology and our bodies just weren't designed to sit this

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