But an exhaustive new study by the medical journal Lancet measuring global physical activity explodes the "myth" about the unfit Indian.

BBC: The myth of the physically unfit Indian

In fact, occupational sitting time is where the epidemiology of physical activity first began, writes one researcher in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

CNN: Sitting for hours can shave years off life

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.

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