I saw this post over at The Register and couldn’t help but saying, “Well duh!”

Swedish scientists have warned that too much sitting on your backside can provoke cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

That’s pretty obvious, you might think, but the researchers from the Karolinska Institute and the Swedish School of Sport and Health warn that the excessively sedentary are running serious risks, irrespective of how much exercise they do when they’re not plonked behind a desk, or lying on the sofa.

Those who are “already insufficiently physically active” will, unsurprisingly, “increase their risk even further by prolonged sitting time.”