Leading obesity researcher visits Umeå: "Non-exercise" is the key to success

Press Release from Umeå University - A world renowned expert in obesity research will be visiting Umeå University on Thursday 14 March, including holding a lecture in Aula Nordica. His main message to everyone is to "get up from your office chair." James A. Levine is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and co-director of the Mayo Clinic/Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative in Phoenix, Arizona. He is well known for his research on how "daily exercise" can be stimulated in the workplace and in schools. It is not about intensive and regular workouts at the gym or running, but to move regularly in everyday life: Stand and work in the office, avoid taking the elevator, choose the bicycle instead of the car, etc. In the United States, he has been an invitee to the President's Panel and the State Department. Internationally, he has consulted with governments around the world. Levine has made substantial improvements in both the physical and mental health of staff and students where these ideas have been applied.