A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK — a partnership between Leicester's Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University — has found new evidence to suggest that longer periods of sedentary time (defined as any sitting / reclining activity
with low energy expenditure) are more strongly associated with the amount of fat deposited around internal organs.
The people who usually have
a lower energy expenditure also tend to have a larger decline in calorie burn when they diet.
-LSB-...] Sedentary behavior is defined as «any waking activity characterized by
a low energy expenditure and a sitting or -LSB-...]
Low energy intake plus
low energy expenditure (low energy flux), not energy surfeit, predicts future body fat gain.