2026
Barron's | “After sitting 8 hours, you need to do this”
Barron's interviewed Dr. Burt Cowgill about the health impact of sitting for lengthy periods.
Barron's interviewed Dr. Burt Cowgill, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the health impact of sitting for lengthy periods.
“We engineered sitting into our lives, and now we’re in the process of engineering not sitting into our lives,” says Cowgill, an associate professor of public health. “We were hunters and gathers since early man, now the food is at the corner.”
