More bad news for chess players…

”Excessive sitting causes coronary artery calcification, associated with heart problems, a new study concludes. Each hour spent sitting, regardless of the time spent exercising, boosts the chance of a heart disease by 14 percent. 

US researchers, who analyzed the data on heart scans and physical activity of more than 2,000 people living in Dallas, whose average age was 50, have found out that “each hour of sedentary time per day on average was associated with a 14 percent increase in coronary artery calcification burden.”  Read more HERE.