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jayparkinsonmd: The Hazards of the Couch (NY Times): Many of us sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day, and then go home and head for the couch to surf the Web or watch television, exchanging one seat and screen for another. Even if we try to squeeze in an hour at the gym, is it enough to counteract all that motionless sitting? A mounting body of evidence suggests not. Increasingly, research is focusing not on how much exercise people get, but how much of their time is spent in sedentary activity, and the harm that does. The latest findings, published this week in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, indicate that the amount of leisure time spent sitting in front of a screen can have such an overwhelming, seemingly irreparable impact on one’s health that physical activity doesn’t produce much benefit. Photo of my friend Noah Brier from Gabriela Herman’s portraits of bloggers. see also Sitting Is Bad for You

jayparkinsonmd:

The Hazards of the Couch (NY Times):

Many of us sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day, and then go home and head for the couch to surf the Web or watch television, exchanging one seat and screen for another. Even if we try to squeeze in an hour at the gym, is it enough to counteract all that motionless sitting?

A mounting body of evidence suggests not.

Increasingly, research is focusing not on how much exercise people get, but how much of their time is spent in sedentary activity, and the harm that does.

The latest findings, published this week in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, indicate that the amount of leisure time spent sitting in front of a screen can have such an overwhelming, seemingly irreparable impact on one’s health that physical activity doesn’t produce much benefit.

Photo of my friend Noah Brier from Gabriela Herman’s portraits of bloggers.

see also

Sitting Is Bad for You

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    My response to this to follow.
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    Create a standing only computer station at home…
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    i need an action plan, b/c this is certainly becoming my life. hmmpph.
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    What am i supposed to do, tell my boss that I can’t sit in front of my computer and stare at data for 8 hours a day?
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    I need to get up, and walk around the house, right about, NOW.
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    Sitting Is Bad for You
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    Humans are designed for action and that includes both physical and mental.In other words:Think. Do. Be.
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