A team of researchers led by Rebecca Seguin, assistant professor of nutritional sciences in college of human ecology at Cornell University in New York, found that women with more than 11 hours of daily sedentary time faced a 12 percent increase in all - cause premature mortality compared with the most energetic group - those with four hours or less of inactivity.
Women with high amount of idle time also up their odds for death due to cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease and cancer by 13, 27 and 21 percent, respectively, claimed the paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
