Sitting is killing you!

[Homercles82]

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health. From increased risk of heart disease and obesity in the long term, to sharply hampered cholesterol maintenance in the short term, the negative health effects of sitting are starting to weigh heavily against the benefits. Even the medical field – the greatest advocates and reducing sitting time – is plagued by this new health issue. Though doctors and nurses get plenty of walking time, it usually falls to the secretaries, billers, and coders to do all the sitting. And, as we can see, something has to change.

http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/sitting-kills/

We all are doomed.

[AsburySkinsFan]

The sky is blue.......

[greenspandan]

living is killing you.

[Rocky21]

I'm killing myself right now!

[mcsluggo]

Bike

to

work.

[Burgold]

Bike

to

work.

biking involves sitting. Jog.

[Koolblue13]

I sit on one of these and I swear it's the only reason I'm skinny. I also try to tighten muscles.

[KDawg]

biking involves sitting. Jog.

And jog in place while doing work at the computer!

[Burgold]

And jog in place while doing work at the computer!

or at least change it up and do a handstand while typing with your feet. Because of shoes, our toes get almost no exercise at all. (This comment is half serious. Shoes do weaken feet by giving so much support)

[mcsluggo]

I sit on one of these and I swear it's the only reason I'm skinny. I also try to tighten muscles.

Koolblue's service to humanity: promoting involuntary clenching up of muscles for all in his viscinity.... bravo!

[Kosher Ham]

Use your smartphone, while walking around.

KB13...That has creepy all over it.

[PokerPacker]

or at least change it up and do a handstand while typing with your feet. Because of shoes, our toes get almost no exercise at all. (This comment is half serious. Shoes do weaken feet by giving so much support)

there are shoes these days with a "barefoot" design that aren't so flat around the toes.

[SnyderShrugged]

I sit on one of these and I swear it's the only reason I'm skinny. I also try to tighten muscles.

I know someone else who swears by it too. She trimmed up a lot after having a baby once she started using it.

[TheDoyler23]

I heard about this. I try and stand as much as possible at work and move around. Makes time go by faster anyway!

[Koolblue13]

Use your smartphone, while walking around.

KB13...That has creepy all over it.

I forget what it's called. Iso...something I think, when you tighten up muscles for a while and then relax them. I forget.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Bike

to

work.

Or find any other of the 1,000 ways you can exercise during the other 16 hours you're not sitting at work.

[mcsluggo]

I forget what it's called. Iso...something I think, when you tighten up muscles for a while and then relax them. I forget.

i had always heard it called "anal retention" or "barely supressed rage"

[SkinsHokieFan]

Or find any other of the 1,000 ways you can exercise during the other 16 hours you're not sitting at work.

There are people in DC who only work 8 hour days?

[China]

I forget what it's called. Iso...something I think, when you tighten up muscles for a while and then relax them. I forget.

Isometric exercises.

[RansomthePasserby]

There are people in DC who only work 8 hour days?

And don't sit in traffic an additional 2 hours?

[TD_washingtonredskins]

There are people in DC who only work 8 hour days?

Absolutely...I have busy periods, but I do my best to get out after 8 hours (sometimes I have to log back in during the evenings).

[#98QBKiller]

Here's the graphic:

[mcsluggo]

chewing gum uses more energy than standing up!!???

wtf?

in that case... i can only assume that wacking off uses more energy than playing roller hockey :-s

[twa]

Study says sitting as bad as smoking

HealthWatch: Sitting Vs. Smoking

(CBS 5) – Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.

“Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases,” explained Dr. David Coven, cardiologist with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.

Dr. Coven said several new studies show prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even early death.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/06/08/healthwatch-sitting-vs-smoking/

I smoke while sitting just to cover all the bases.

[Mickalino]

Bike

to

work.

What about all the people who work remotely from home.

Not to mention what it's doing to your eyes, by staring at a computer screen all day.