/oss/taxonomy/term/3531/all en /oss/article/health/10000-steps-myth-or-fact <p>There is little doubt that sedentary behavior is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28138134">bad for your health</a>. Many people claim that “sitting is the new smoking,” even though the two are not really comparable. Smoking is <a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304649">orders of magnitude worse</a> than being sedentary, and given the choice, people should opt to do neither.</p> Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7465 at /oss