ou may want to go for a walk after reading this: People who don't sit more than three hours

a day are more likely to live an additional two years, a new study h as claimed. Scientists from Louisiana University in the US found that those adul ts who are only seated for a maximum of three hours a day typically live an extr a two years. Watching television has a similar effect, according to the researchers' calculat ions. They found that those who limit their daily viewing to two hours live for nearly a year and a half longer, the Daily Mail reported . Experts have long bla med the growing sedentary lifestyles for rising levels of obesity and a lack of fitness in today's adults. This in turn is linked to heart problems, diabetes an d many forms of cancer. The new findings, published in the journal BMJ Open, wil l no doubt cause concern amongst office workers who spend most of the day at the ir desks. The new research reviewed past studies involving 167,000 adults aged 18 to 90. T he researchers compared the subjects' life expectancy with how much time they ha d spent sitting down and watching television . They calculated that 27% of all d eaths in America are partly caused by adults spending too much time sitting down . Similarly 19% of all deaths are in part due to watching too much TV. "The resu lts of this study indicate that extended sitting time and TV viewing may have th e potential to reduce life expectancy in the US," they concluded. But other expe rts said the study certainly did not prove sitting down for too long shortened y our life expectancy.