There is a way to make sitting 8 hours a day less damaging to your health

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last updated January 8, 2015

Numerous studies have shown that sitting eight hours or more a day is bad for you, and can lead to heart disease, joint pain, and poor circulation. But fret not; researchers now say you don't necessarily have to stand up for eight hours in order to avoid these problems.

Researchers from Indiana University studied healthy men between the ages of 20 to 35; while none were regular exercisers, they also didn't have health problems like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, or obesity. While normal blood flow can become impaired by as much as 50 percent after just one hour of sitting, there was no decline when the men walked five minutes on a treadmill each hour.