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Sitting Too Much May Shave Years Off Our Lives Sitting Less Than 3 Hours a Day May Add 2 Years on to Our Lives July 9, 2012 -- Sitting too much is a serious health threat, a new study suggests. But keeping "down time" to less than three hours a day might make us live an extra two years.

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Zen Habits blogger Leo Babuta hits on perhaps the most important aspect of making meditation a centering tool for your hectic life: forming the habit. Don't buy a mat or pillow, or focus on 15-minute sits-not yet. Just sit for 2 minutes, every single day.

To manage the condition doctors advise controlling body weight, eating healthy including intake of antioxidants Vitamin C, calcium and Vitamin D apart from taking medicines as prescribed by the doctor.

I am constantly seeking better ways to incorporate stress reduction into my daily routine. Most afternoons I do 15 minutes of yoga or meditation or just sit on my porch and stare at the butterflies. Sometimes I get remarkable results, especially with a short yoga DVD, sometimes just a pleasant break.

ONE lesson I've learned while writing about fitness is that few things impinge on an active life as much as writing about fitness - all that time spent hunched before a computer or puzzling over scientific journals, the countless hours of feckless, seated procrastination. While writing about the benefits of exercise, my muscles slackened.