In fact, occupational sitting time is where the epidemiology of physical activity first began, writes one researcher in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
In a study published earlier this month in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, he and his colleagues monitored the brain activity of 79 female and 70 male students while they performed a letter-identifying exercise.
Earlier this summer Dr Bearman reported, in the American Journal of Sociology, an examination of high-school students' sexual activity and romantic relationships.
"Few other leads have shown as much promise as physical activity in extending the lives of cancer survivors, " said an editorial last year in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
But he says published data in the August 1998 journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses on a sanitizer with the same active ingredient shows sustained activity.