Apple iWatch Release Date: New App Will Help Cure Cancer Of 'Sitting'

The Apple Watch, set to come out in April 2015, is aiming to be both a fashion accessory as well as a vital tool that helps improve our health. More information about this was provided by Tim Cook the CEO of Apple who outlined how the watch will help cure the widespread "cancer" of sitting that is causing a variety of health problems.

Cook made the statement that the Apple Watch would help prevent the " cancer of sitting" by prodding people to move every hour, while speaking at the Technology and Internet Conference hosted by Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, California. He explained that the Apple Watch would be remarkable as it would "change the way people lived their life" and added that several doctors now "believed sitting is the new cancer".

An important function of the watch, Cook explained would involve it tapping users on the wrist if they have been sitting for nearly an hour and have not moved about. This new feature works mainly because the Apple Watch's activity app can track the activity levels of the user and check whether they are moving, exercising, sitting or standing. If the user stands every hour and this extends over 12 hours daily, they will get credit for doing so and the "stand ring" on the watch will come full circle and close for the day.

In much the same way the Activity app on the Apple Watch will also track whether the user had met their "move" goal and burnt their calorie goal every day. The third activity ring of the app will show whether the user has exercised or walked for 30 minutes per day which is the amount that is regularly recommended throughout the world.

The dangers of sitting for extended periods of time, has been the subject of various studies. These have shown that sitting for prolonged periods every day increases the risk of heart disease occurring even among people who exercise every day. Finally Cook noted that Apple Watch had already helped employees in the company become more active.