It means many dogs are confined to a sedentary life and a daily regime of pills.
So it is a more sedentary, cerebral and mature line-up that will appeal to a more sedentary, cerebral and mature crowd - and the rest can go to Reading.
However, competitive video gaming has increasingly become a sedentary pursuit, and then a solitary one.
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And earlier this year the evidence against many hours of sitting expanded further: The American Journal of Epidemiology published a study finding that those who work a sedentary job have almost twice the risk of a specific type of colon cancer.
Whether slim or fat, a person leading a sedentary lifestyle has similar chances of dying young to a smoker.
They did find that pessimists were also likely to have other heart risk factors such as being overweight and a sedentary lifestyle, though once they corrected for those, mood alone was still a factor.
Parents seem to have a problem if a child spends several hours playing video games, but have no qualms about sending them to a sedentary classroom environment where they will sit on their butts for 6-7 hours a day.
With a sizable paunch and a sedentary lifestyle, Bryan Cecchi fits the mold of the typical middle-age American male.
In fact, three Big Macs, or 1, 450 calories, is a quite strict daily diet for a sedentary adult male.
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Sports is the best antidote for Type 2 diabetes, which is caused by a sedentary lifestyle and poor nutrition, you say.
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According to new research, though, fast food and a sedentary lifestyle may not be the only contributors to the growing problem of obesity.
Sitting reading is a sedentary occupation, and yet no-one is suggesting you should avoid "War and Peace" or the later, over-long Harry Potter novels.
Recently the trainers explained how they plan to build off the YouTube encouragement and what they would do to help a sedentary person get exercising again.
"Astronauts' bones become weaker and their physical fitness decreases the longer they spend in space, much like an elderly person leading a sedentary lifestyle, " says Dr Green.
Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are known to increase the risk of developing type 2, and the precipitous rise of diabetes in America is largely linked to the rise in obesity.
About 24 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and 90 percent of those cases are type 2 diabetes, which is more likely to occur with aging, excess weight and a sedentary lifestyle.
The research, published in 2012 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, used TV viewing and overall sitting time as a proxy for sedentary behavior.
Like a conspiracy to get sedentary tech writers excited about bikes.
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Herbalife's newest offering: Niteworks, a powder aimed at sedentary folks.
Part of what drives the mania, of course, is the culture of List-ification which has become so comically pervasive ranking the 20 Greatest Players is a cousin to 15 Sedentary Weight Loss Secrets, 81 Restaurants To Eat At Before You Perish of Botulism, 10 Cats That Look Exactly Like Daniel Craig.
Programs like Bowlopolis struck a chord with parents worried about sedentary behavior among their children.
In a Mayo Clinic study, kids who traded sedentary screen time for active screen time more than doubled their energy expenditure.
Some people tend to read such physical cues as a sign of a good workout or progress, whereas many sedentary people just find them uncomfortable or painful, say researchers.
Which means that people who watch a lot of TV tend to lead unhealthy, sedentary lifestyles.
Research by Arthur Kramer, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has shown that when sedentary aging adults, ages 58 to 78, take up a regimen of brisk walking they can improve their ability to ignore distractions.
It recommends 150 minutes a week, and "reducing and minimising periods of sedentary behaviour".
Kinect has been touted as a way to get more physical activity into the traditionally sedentary sphere of video games since the days of Project Natal, and now it appears like Microsoft is developing some powerful new software to start quantifying just how much players are moving around.
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In both cases, the more sedentary job carried greater health risks than the more active job, even though they were in a similar line of work.
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