Sitting Too Much Expands Your Butt, Tel Aviv University Reveals

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Sitting is not good for our health, and most of us know that. The modern lifestyle of laptops, tablets, and flat screen TVs has made it inevitable to be under the long spells of sitting down. Now a study published in the Biophysical Journal has found sitting too much not only expands your buttocks, creating a larger and rounder backside, but it can also promote obesity due to cellular expansion — the faster growth of fat mass that pushes and deforms nearby cells to produce more fat.

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