"...each extra hour of daily sitting posture was associated with a 22 per cent increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes."

Longer you sit, more chances of diabetes develop- study says

"Not only obesity, the longer you spent by sitting even increase the risk of diabetes, warned new study. 

According to the study conducted by Julianne van der Berg of Maastricht University in the Netherlands and colleagues researched that cross-sectional associations of total duration and patterns of sedentary behaviour with glucose metabolism status and the metabolic syndrome.

Researchers said that each extra hour of daily sitting posture was associated with a 22 per cent increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes."