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Sitting is the new smoking. This thing is like the e-cig of chairs...
by fnazeeri 12y ago
Sitting is the new smoking. This thing is like the e-cig of chairs...
- crazypyro 12y agoI don't understand this analogy. Care to explain?
- anigbrowl 12y agoSitting too much can cause health problems (not because of the sitting itself but the lack of exercise that often accompanies sit-down jobs). It's been fashionable to say 'sitting is killing people' and suchlike in the popular media.
- crazypyro 12y agoAh, makes sense, but here I was thinking the standing desk hype from a couple years ago had long since faded.
- tveita 12y agoSpending too much time sitting down is believed to increase mortality even if you exercise regularly. E.g. http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/too-much-sitting-linked-to-an-early-death-201401297004 http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/too-much-sitting-linked-t...: “Even if you are doing the recommended amount of moderate to vigorous exercise, you will still have a higher risk of mortality if you’re spending too many hours sitting,” says Dr. JoAnn Manson, one of the study’s authors, and chief of preventive medicine at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
- fidz 12y agoWhat is "too much"? So what should we do? In school, we studied in class by sitting on the school chair. That habit continue in campus. Also, some worker are forced to do their job by sitting (e.g. taxi driver, pilot). Btw, The article said that 8+ hours and it applies to woman.
- pedalpete 12y agoSitting for long hours is 'claimed' to be bad for your health. Not that I am disputing the claim, I actually agree and have gone back and forth between standing desk and sitting desk. I say 'claimed' because I think more research is still required. Standing all day can be quite fatiguing as well.
- sjtrny 12y agoIsn't the point of using a standing desk that it is fatiguing?