What did they do in the Stone Age?
The AP reports on a new deadly threat to mankind, the ancient practice of sitting:
a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the overall number of hours it occurs…Figures from a U.S. survey in 2003-2004 found Americans spend more than half their time sitting
And all this time we thought that cow and sheep parping was the deadliest thing going.
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
100 years ago people worked from dawn to dark on farms with next to no mechanized help to ease the burden and they died at 45. Today people get fat sitting in cubicles and live to be 80. The numerous ways research money is squandered boggles my feeble mind.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
here’s another feeble-minded comment:
cave men ate organic food, drank pure water, breathed clean air – and died age 20.
people in heavily industrialized nations – sitting in cubicles or not – live 4x longer.
so much for that!
January 23rd, 2010 at 3:47 am
Breathing is deadly. Everyone who does it dies. Where’s my research grant?
January 23rd, 2010 at 4:45 am
Are we know talking about an “unsafe working environment”? Is there now danger pay associated with sitting around? Maybe legislation can dictate that you can only sit around for a 4 hour period and then you should go home.