Sitting down less can cut diabetes risk by up to 75% and reduce your waist size

Sitting down too much during leisure time increases your risk of diabetes even if you work out regularly, scientists warn.

Those who sit very little and exercise a lot cut their risk of obesity – strongly linked to type 2 diabetes – by up to three-quarters, a study shows.

It appears that long periods of inactive leisure time reduce the benefits derived from physical exercise, say the researchers from University College London.

This means the best way to cut the risk of obesity – and therefore of diabetes – is to sit down less as well as taking more exercise