The health hazards of sitting

[ashling]

Mortality of sitting People who watched the most TV in an 8.5-year study had a 61 percent greater risk of dying than those who watched less than one hour per day.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/the-health-hazards-of-sitting/750/?tid=sm_fb

[elleng]

1. So NOT watching tv means we DON'T die?

[ashling]

4. That's my take away

[Arugula Latte]

2. Makes sense. We evolved from active hairy primates who were

probably constantly looking for food, running down their prey, and running away from things that wanted them to be prey.

[Stuart G]

3. Another link: "The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Do All Day

Men's Fitness:

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/most-dangerous-thing-youll-do-all-day
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We stand around a lot here at Men’s Health. In fact, a few of us don’t even have office chairs. Instead, we write, edit, and answer e-mails—a lot of e-mails—while standing in front of our computers. All day long. Why?

It all started last summer, when Assistant Editor Maria Masters came across a shocking study in the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (one of dozens of research journals we comb each month as we put together the magazine). Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks.

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opps, time for me to get up from the computer and walk around....................