The phrase "adopt a sedentary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing lifestyle choices, particularly in relation to physical activity or lack thereof.
Example: "Many people in modern society tend to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, which can lead to various health issues."
Alternatives: "embrace a sedentary" or "take on a sedentary".
Tribespeople who adopt a sedentary lifestyle and eat processed food show a sharp increase in the same diseases that afflict Westerners.
The lives and settlement patterns of the original inhabitants of the coastal areas were profoundly changed as they were converted to Christianity and persuaded to adopt a sedentary lifestyle in compact villages.
The continuous loss of land, coupled with frequent drought occurrences, had made a large number of pastoralists to adopt a sedentary lifestyle (Little 1985).
For me, being active is a way of life, travelling should not be an excuse to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, it should be an opportunity to explore new ways to exercise and simply move more.
At the beginning of the Archaic Era, they began to adopt a sedentary approach to subsistence.
Most bivalves adopt a sedentary or even sessile life style, often spending their whole lives in the area in which they first settled as juveniles.
Many of the Sami have adopted a sedentary life and intermarried with Scandinavians and Finns.
It is not entirely clear whether the wave of urban development after the 20th century bce was the work of a new immigrant people accustomed to town dwelling or of the local inhabitants themselves, some of whom may have adopted a sedentary lifestyle and begun, as in Mesopotamia and Syria, to establish dynasties.
Even the mystery of why and how Arab nomads adopted a sedentary lifestyle and built a great city has yet to be fully explained.
Other countries are facing a similar problem as they import Western living standards replacing traditional foods with McDonald's and KFC and adopting a sedentary, office-based lifestyle.
Several reasons emerged for adopting a sedentary behaviour and facilitators as well as barriers for Somali women living in Sweden were identified to increase and stimulate physical activity.
