In addition to obesity, living a sedentary lifestyle increases your risk of other health problems. Worldwide, it is estimated that a sedentary lifestyle is responsible for 6% of coronary heart disease cases, 7% of type 2 diabetes, 10% of breast cancer and 10% of colon cancer cases. In fact, it was recently reported that inactivity is responsible for more annual deaths than smoking. Screen time is the amount of time a person spends watching a screen such as a television, computer monitor, or mobile device. Consequences include developing a sedentary lifestyle, we as a group must calculate our screen time to determine whether we are abusing it or not, the average American child spends between 20 and 30 hours a week engaged in some form of screen time. Children who regularly spend more than 10 hours per week watching TV are more likely to be overweight, aggressive, and slower to learn in school.   We can avoid the Sedentary Lifestyle through simple exercises that could be performed throughout the day, for example, Using active transportation, such as walking or biking, walking more throughout the day, including walking the dog or something of that sort, one can also be more physically active depending on the nature of their lives, there is always a way to reduce inactivity and become more healthy depending on your lifestyle.  Healthy People 2020 is a non-profit awareness campaign, their objective is to reduce the proportion of adults who engage in no leisure-time physical activity by 10.0 percent. In addition, HP2020 has a leading health indicator to increase the proportion of adults who meet objectives for aerobic physical activity and for muscle-strengthening activity, you could join the cause or at least benefit from their studies and their experiences, Visit www.healthypeople.gov/2020. (source)