At least he’s crushing something. The internet had a ball Thursday mocking California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s weirdly tense “testicle-crushing” style of cross-legged sitting at a speaking engagement. The ...

“I am shattered in a way I didn't know a human being could break," the mother of Madison Riley Hull said A 23-year-old woman set to graduate college in six months was mauled to death by three dogs ...

Scientists found that high-flavanol foods can prevent the decline in blood vessel function that occurs after prolonged sitting. Even physically fit men weren’t protected unless they had consumed ...

LA GRACE, S.D. — Charles Abbott Wilkins came to Dakota Territory in 1883 to seek a better future on the prairie, then opening to settlers during the bustling Great Dakota Boom. The 21-year-old native ...

We’re often told to move more—by exercising, stretchin, or simply standing up—to combat the effects of prolonged sitting. But what we eat may also play a key role in offsetting the negative impacts of ...

Sitting has often been referred to as the new smoking thanks to its negative health benefits. For the first time ever, according to researchers in England, the flavanols in cocoa have been found to ...

New research from the University of Birmingham shows that eating flavanol-rich foods-like tea, berries, apples, and cocoa-can protect vascular health in men from the harmful effects of prolonged ...

The notion that sitting isn’t good for you isn’t new – but if you think that running regularly cancels out the negative side effects of sitting all day, you’d be wrong. Research indicates that no ...

More than 10 years ago Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic coined the phrase, “Sitting is the new smoking.” Ever since, entrepreneurs and other largely desk-bound workers have eyed their chairs with ...

For centuries in the West, sitting on the floor carried a quiet stigma. Chairs were symbols of civility and class, while sitting on the rug suggested carelessness or poor manners. That idea became so ...

Welcome to Deep Dish, a weekly roundup of food and entertainment news. Can you smell it in the air? As of Monday, we’ve officially entered autumn. Prepare your pumpkin spice, break out your light ...

We are, quite literally, sitting ourselves to death—and most of us don’t even realise it. Think about a typical day. It begins in traffic, where you’re pinned to your seat for what feels like an ...