How NOT to die from sitting all day
https://www.today.com/series/one-small-thing/sitting-bad-your-health-move-every-30-minutes-t116207People who experience such long bouts of uninterrupted sitting and who stay sedentary for much of their waking time — 12.5 hours or more a day — have the highest risk of death from any cause, a new study finds. But there’s one thing you can do to reduce the harm: Move every 30 minutes for at least one minute, said lead author Keith Diaz, an associate research scientist at Columbia University Medical Center.
“People need to be mindful and try to take a break every half hour if they can,” Diaz told TODAY. “When our bodies are not moving, they just stop working like they’re supposed to.”
The findings, published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, come after Diaz and his team analyzed data from almost 8,000 people who took part in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.
The participants, who were all 45 or older, wore a device that measured how much they moved during the day. Overall, it found they spent 77 percent of their waking hours sitting or being otherwise inactive — the equivalent to being sedentary more than 12 hours out of a 16-hour waking day. It seems astonishing, but Diaz wasn’t surprised.
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I guess that counts?
Me too! Of course, if you're female like me, that means even more sitting! This is way TMI, but it takes me forever to pee, so I just hate it.
But I could not convince her. She lived with us until her death this past March. I think she thought I was being mean, nagging her about moving around, suggesting she walk out back. Oh, the horror!
I tried but in truth we're often our own worst enemies. Guess my kids will nag on me some time in the future.
They started with just one, and now I would say about 25-30% of our staff have them. It allows you to adjust the height to sitting or standing. Our big boss (before he retired) was shoveling snow one day and had to go to the ER because of chest pain. He recovered and had a couple of stents installed. When he came back to work, he started encouraging us to compete in walking/fitbit contests, he put a treadmill/standing desk workstation in a corner of the office (has a governor set at 2mph), has some light handweights, and has a couple of underdesk peddle dohickeys that can be signed out. They also are in some kind of program that let's you try out different kinds of chairs for a 2 wk period until you settle on one you like, including several models of core strengthening chairs. Kinda cool, but I would be afraid I'd pop the ball or need someone to help me out of darned thing. 
I have put in a request for a dual monitor standing desk. I was recently diagnosed with T2 Diabetes and have been trying to force myself to be more active, but I've always been sedentary. I know my numbers are better if I move more, but I find it really difficult to get my 10K+ steps (or 45+ minutes/day per my nutritionist) in a day and feel guilty if I want to veg and concentrate on my art or doing genealogy at night (more sitting) after work, fixing dinner, and cleaning the kitchen.
