If sitting is the new smoking how can I avoid being a WFH casualty? You can reduce the chances of being a sitting duck for ill health by combating sedentary working-from-home life with intermittent activity 22 January 2021 • 4:00pm Getting up and moving for only one to two minutes every half-hour can prevent aches and pains, help lower blood sugar and improve your concentration Credit: E+/E+ You’ve heard of intermittent fasting. Now get ready for intermittent activity, the latest antidote health experts are proposing to help combat the devastating effects of all the additional hours of sitting we’ve been doing since March – with more to come.