As revealed out by Associate Professor David Dunstan from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, instead of adequate exercising, sitting too much for long hours is not good for an individual’s health.

As told by him during one of the nutrition conference in Auckland, contractions to your muscles are important for the body's regulatory processes like breaking down of blood glucose. Therefore when people sit for large periods of time throughout the day, their body muscles are unable to contract and this can lead to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

Therefore according to Dunstan, adopting a whole day approach to physical activity is always recommended. He said "Most of us simply move from chair to chair throughout the day - from eating breakfast to sitting in the car, to an office chair, and back home to sit in a chair watching television. That's a huge volume of physical activity that we've lost over the 16 hour period that we're awake".

This is the main cause for most of people having lower blood glucose levels.

He also disclosed that there exist decades of evidence to prove that people who exercise are healthier. However, this truth needs more of research, but still there are numerous reasonable grounds to believe that sitting less is better for our health.