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[00:00.00]From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. [00:04.60]If you are sitting down listening to this Health Report, stand up. Move your legs. Touch your toes, if you can. Do anything but sit. [00:17.75]If you cut down on the time you spend sitting, you might live longer. [00:23.71]New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might extend your life by two years. [00:33.33]The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around. [00:43.99]Just the opposite, says Peter Katzmarzyk. He is a scientist at the University of Louisiana in the southern United States. [00:54.93]He says that sitting is ubiquitous in our lives, meaning it is something we do all the time, everywhere. [01:06.07]But, he adds, that does not make sitting good for us. [01:11.39]Sitting is ubiquitous in our lives today. You know, we sit while were eating, we sit in the car, we sit while we watch TV. [01:19.79]And many of us sit for many hours at work. So on average, Americans report that they sit between four and a half to five hours a day. [01:29.08]Mr. Katzmarzyk says you may exercise often. But, he says even that does not mean you can sit for the rest of your waking hours. [01:40.83]We cant throw away physical activity. Its extremely important. We have 60 years of research showing us that. [01:48.15]But sedentary behavior is also important -- even if you exercise for 30 minutes a day. [01:55.31]What goes on in the other 23-and-a-half hours a day is also very important. [01:59.61]Mr. Katzmarzyk and his co-workers, or colleagues, are part of a new generation of researchers studying how sitting all day affects length of life. Such studies are rare. [02:16.59]This is a relatively new area of study - studies that have assessed the relationship between sitting and mortality or television viewing and mortality are very rare. [02:28.19]Theres only been a few of them, actually five or six now, in the last four or five y