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That might sound ridiculous -- or obvious -- depending on your perspective, but the findings don't come from a fringe study. They come from the American Cancer Society, whose researchers studied 123,216 people's health outcomes during a 14-year period.
In particular, the American Cancer Society study finds that women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day. Men were about 20% more likely to die.
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What's particularly interesting about recent research is the revelation that sitting for extended periods of time does significant damage to human health that cannot be undone by exercising. Sitting for several hours each day is bad for you, like smoking is bad for you, regardless of whether you do healthful activities, too.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/24/sitting.shorten.life/index.html
The idea appears to be to move for 2 minutes of every 20 spent sitting. Stand up, twist, rotate your head, etc.
There are apps and reminders to help.
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Gregorian
(23,867 posts)I don't know if that article addresses this, but it's one of the findings as well. Sorry, I'm running on no time, so didn't read your link. Speaking of which, I'm out the door for a walk.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)One then just gets to ask "What did I get for it"?
Probably not enough.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)And I love the word probably. You can't make this stuff up.
Regardless, try saying to your boss, you need a 2 minute break every 20 minutes. Good luck!
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)costs will be higher, and your employees will have a higher chance of suffering painful, debilitating, and deadly diseases.
Your costs to replace that talent will be higher.
This gives your competition a real lever, because they care whether I am able to raise my children or not.
Heck, you may not even be in business 10 years from now, if you let others change their work before you do.
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And then you start figuring out how to leave it behind.
I get your point, and see the reality, but I still think one should strive to save their own house before that of their Master. They may not always be successful, but they will never be if they don't have it in them to try.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)it's not easy. Desk job staring at a computer.
I find ways. Oh, have to go scan a bunch of stuff. Gotta print some stuff and run over to the printer. Gotta go run all that printed stuff to the next office (our office has been split up because we grew too fast and can't break our lease so we have many offices on our block, LOL, we aren't all in the same building). Have to go to the other next office to pick up some paperwork. Have to go to the bathroom. OH, have to go talk to my supervisor/co-worker/whoever about that store/project/issue. Oh, look, it's break time. Let's go for a walk.
I still get all my work done (And then some because I'm super efficient). So no one says anything about me getting up so much. I guess it might be an issue if I didn't get my work done. No one else in the office seems to get up that much.
When I'm at home I don't sit much. I'm always in the kitchen cooking, or cleaning, or shopping, or doing something with the kids, or gardening in the summer, or shoveling in the winter. I still do spend too much time online. My bad.
Although I will end this post with the prerequisite "my grandpa smoked since he was 11, drank a lot of rye, ate fried foods, sat around all day and lived till he was 97" post. (And to add to the anecdotes...My other active grandpa lived till he was 102 (also smoked but a pipe). My maternal grandmother, who sat long enough to eat a few bites and that was it, made it to 85. My other grandmother is still living at 91. I hope my good genetics outweigh my crappy desk job)
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)we go forward in a world that is burning up, and the US adjusts to being a lot less than it has been used to.
I agree about the anecdotes, but I suspect our "grandpas" lived much leaner lives for their first 50 years compared to our relatively fat and sugar-filled existence. We will see as this lazyboy generation ages out.
