We knew that sitting was bad for your health.

But now a group of researchers (primarily at UCLA) have identified a specific mechanism that shifts your health downhill when you sit.

Here’s the link to their research.

Among a group of adults aged 45-75, those who were the most sedentary had thinning of the medial part of the temporal lobe of the brain.

That brain region – the medial temporal lobe – is particularly important for memory.

Don’t accept a future of diminished mental capacity. Here’s what you’ve got to do:

• walk instead of drive
• stand at your desk instead of sitting
• park in the parking slot furtherest away in the lot
• take the stairs, not the elevator
• if you have to sit to accomplish a particular task, get up and move around for 5 minutes or more every hour

Dr. Lavine has been an innovator in the use of movement and touch to promote health since 1981. He practices in New York City and Princeton, NJ.

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