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7 Ways Sitting Will Kill You

Posted 2.25.13 at 10:00 am 5 Comments

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In a February 2013 survey of 63,048 middle-aged Australian men, those who sat for more than four hours a day were significantly more likely to have a chronic disease like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

The more time they spent sitting, the more likely the subjects were to have a chronic disease of some sort, regardless of their body mass index or how much they exercised. Those who sat at least six hours per day were significantly more likely to have diabetes in particular, a finding that echoed previous studies.

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killerT

02/25/13 at 2:41 pm

Well this is sure to ruin everyone's day all at once.
Relaxing is bad for your health. I bet nobody saw that coming.

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ford2go

02/26/13 at 2:40 am

While I can believe that sitting has it's negatives, this article has a lot of sensationalism.

"40 percent higher risk than those who don't." OK, but what is the actual number. If the basic risk is 1 in 10,000, then a 40 per cent increase is 1.4 in 10,000. If the base risk is 1 in 10 then it's a lot worse.

The article is full of these kind of vagueries making it a nice sensation piece.

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African Rover

02/26/13 at 11:12 am

Surely life insurance companies keep track of this sort of thing, yet (at least in the past) you got better rates in a sedentary job than in a blue collar job which mostly implies very little sitting.

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quasi44

02/27/13 at 10:32 pm

We need to declare war on chairs. Stools too. They've murdered us with impunity too long. We now have the technology to counter their insidious threat.

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Ruri

03/01/13 at 1:51 am

Standing in one place all day is just as bad if not worse so the real answer is to alternate between positions.

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