Employees want you to know something: Their jobs are making them fat.

Fitness experts from the Human Performance Institute designed a workout that takes a mere seven minutes. Yes, you read that right.

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report confirm what we know only too well: We have a hard time meeting the government’s recommended physical activity guidelines.

Sitting without interruption is tied to a greater incidence of obesity, diabetes, and kidney and cardiovascular disease. Research also ties it to an increased risk of cancer.

Research from the University of Leicester confirms the link between prolonged sitting and risk of disease.

Researchers from Brigham Young University, the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) and the Center for Health Research at Healthways discover the damaging effects of sedentary behavior.

We may soon be able to pop a pill when we don’t feel like getting off the couch. Swiss researchers have isolated a hormone, erythropoietin, that made mice more active—and could do the same for humans.

The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) announced a $65.2 million investment in research to tackle obesity and diabetes. One of the studies plans to explore technologies to decrease sitting time at work.

A Finnish study used electrode-bearing shorts to track muscle activity in its participants. Their hypothesis was that exercise would reduce muscular inactivity. They were wrong.

Before there was pink slime, there was what’s been dubbed “sitting disease.” James A. Levine from the Mayo Clinic explains what it is.