Excessive sitting and an unhealthy diet may combine to overwhelm our body’s normal energy expenditure, increasing the risk of diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Less sitting is one remedy. How much less? Researchers in Finland found just thirty minutes less sitting per day may showed improvements in metabolic health and fat burning during light exercise than those who remained highly sedentary. The study, appearing in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, also demonstrated that the more sedentary participants increased their standing versus sitting time, the more their metabolic flexibility improved.