{"id":91758,"date":"2026-07-10T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91758"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:06:21","slug":"sir-chris-whitty-warns-sitting-and-wfh-are-making-us-frail-as-he-gives-sobering-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/10\/sir-chris-whitty-warns-sitting-and-wfh-are-making-us-frail-as-he-gives-sobering-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Chris Whitty warns sitting and WFH are making us &#8216;frail&#8217; as he gives sobering update"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.UfgMKsfKaroIzIUrr7uFGAHaE8?w=267&h=180&c=7&r=0&o=7&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7&rm=3\" alt=\"Image result for chris whitty exercise guidance 2026\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/chris-whitty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Sir Chris Whitty<\/a>\u00a0has warned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/work-from-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">working from home<\/a> means more Brits are sitting all day and not getting enough physical activity.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/sir-chris-whitty-warns-sitting-and-wfh-are-making-us-frail-as-he-gives-sobering-update\/ar-AA27ACL1?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=160be561a9a54159bde09264cf2aa011&ei=5\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 Sir Chris Whitty\u00a0has warned\u00a0working from home means more Brits are sitting all day and not getting enough physical activity.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chris-Whitty.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91760,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91758\/revisions\/91760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}