A doctor sits at her desk. AFP PHOTO / JAVIER SORIANO (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images)
(CBS 5) – Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.
“Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases,” explained Dr. David Coven, cardiologist with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.
Dr. Coven said several new studies show prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even early death.
“The fact of being sedentary causes factors to happen in the body that are very detrimental,” said Dr. Coven.
Dr. Coven says when you sit for long periods of time; your body goes into storage mode,
When that happens, it stops working as effectively as it should. What’s worse, the more hours a day you sit, the greater your likelihood of developing one or more of these diseases, just as with smoking.
Linda Caufield has a desk job. She sits nearly seven hours a day.
“I’m on the computer, I’m on the phone, I’m doing paperwork so all that stuff has to be done at my desk,” she said.
Linda had no idea her desk was so deadly, noting how “sitting is probably killing me.”
Paul Golin says he was sitting up to eight hours a day. But after a recent heart health scare, he bought a “stand up” desk. It’s a contraption that rests on a treadmill.
“I turn on the treadmill and walk for about an hour a day,” said Golin.
Golin’s measures may seem extreme but so are the consequences of sitting. Dr. Coven recommeded to just get up and move when you can.
“Any time you get the blood pumping, the blood moving, it stimulates the organs to do things that are healthier,” said Coven.
If you think that hour of cardio you do every day negates the effect of your desk job, think again.
So get up at the office at any chance you get, don’t send emails when you can deliver the message in person, take the stairs, stand up when you take a phone call. And don’t forget to take your breaks, and take a walk.
To view research from American College of Cardiology, click here.
Other research on effects of sedentary behavior:
Karolinska Institutet editorial, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine
Sitting time and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease and cancer
Leisure time sedentary behavior and metabolic syndrome
Leisure time sitting and mortality in U.S. adults
Sedentary Behavior & Colorectal Cancer
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here we go again. another liberal study to give greedance to their existance. As get older you are going to sit more. no one has the same DNA or genes and no one has the right to tell others how to live.
June 9, 2011 at 6:36 am | | Report comment
You do if you are a Democrat!!!!
June 9, 2011 at 6:44 am | | Report comment
what a stupid comment. if in any way shape or form you get healthcare assistance, including individual health insurance because that spreads risk around and can raise others premiums you should be told what to do. however if your paying totally out of pocket i don’t care what you do to yourself because it doesn’t affect me. however at this point with 66% of americans being overweight many obese you lost your right to choose for yourself.
June 9, 2011 at 10:39 am
Democrats do like pounding on others over nothing.
June 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Relax buddy. Why don’t you just have a seat and not get so bent out of shape. Just something to think about. That’s all. But I don’t want to tell you what to do or anything.
June 9, 2011 at 6:44 am | | Report comment
“But I don’t want to tell you what to do or anything.” – HAHAHAHA You just did.
June 9, 2011 at 6:48 am
Nobody’s telling you what to do, there’s no “liberal” conspiracy
It’s just common sense. We’re talking about risk factors here. Obviously we have different genes, one can drink smoke and be a couch potato and live 80 but chances are not.
June 9, 2011 at 6:50 am | | Report comment
It’s G.W.’s fault! He’s responsible for 9/11, JFK and my dog’s death!
June 9, 2011 at 7:45 am
I’d say being hateful and obsessed with liberals is bad for your health as well.
June 9, 2011 at 7:09 am | | Report comment
100% correct, and I’m a conservative. Don’t understand why “everything” must be political for some. Great comment.
June 9, 2011 at 7:24 am
Amen man! Some people will make 2+2=4 a political argument
June 9, 2011 at 8:41 am
Oh, it’s so obvious to anyone but the hopelessly naive……..”They” have raised gas prices as far as possible without fomenting a rebellion, so now that you can longer sit in your car, “They” are coming after your Lazy Boy. Along with your smokes, your sodas and your french fries. At least have the decency to buy a green chair.
You deniers are killing the planet! We’re all gonna die!
June 9, 2011 at 9:06 am
Until politicians lose the ability to use information to sway public opinion and pass laws, it’s all political.
June 9, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Uhm, you don’t sound like your part of the 52% of Americans who are Conservative, and I’m sure you are a Liberal.
June 9, 2011 at 12:29 pm
yup stress kills too
June 9, 2011 at 10:40 am
This is just a prelude to taxing people for sitting on their duffs. Obamie has to pay for the healthcare fiasco somehow. Wonder if they will put some kind of gismo on our rears to record how long we sit.
June 9, 2011 at 11:00 am
actually it is quite healthy to feel consternation for leftie miscreants. cathartic.
June 9, 2011 at 1:29 pm
“greedance”? What the hell is that?
June 9, 2011 at 7:23 am | | Report comment
You never heard of Greedance Glearwater Gravel Robble?
June 9, 2011 at 2:02 pm
What’s wrong with being healthy? You don’t HAVE to do it. It’s just that if you want to lead a healthier lifestyle you should move more. It’s not a political thing, it’s just common sense.
June 9, 2011 at 7:25 am | | Report comment
Good, go be healthy and STFU – and don’t forget to work hard so you can pay for my healthcare!
June 9, 2011 at 7:34 am
You’re an idiot.No one has to sit more just because they are older. No one is telling others how to live
June 9, 2011 at 7:54 am | | Report comment
Wow Tim, you are kind of a dumb a** huh? To give “greedance?” And why does this have anything to do with liberal or conservative? Because the study warns of being sedentary? Yeah, I definitely see how warning fat Americans that being lazy is part of the liberal agenda.
You appear to be nothing more than another impressionable underachiever who can’t distinguish between reality and the nonsense that Rush and Sean spew daily…
June 9, 2011 at 2:07 pm | | Report comment
No one has the right to tell others how to live? Of course they don’t. And this article is obviously not trying to dictate your behaviour at all. They see health risks associated with sitting around a lot, and they report it. You yourself decide whether you want to stay sedentary or not. But you’re a moron, and would rather see it as some kind of liberal conspiracy.
I wonder where people like you live… I’ve never met someone with your special brand of stupidity…
June 9, 2011 at 2:33 pm | | Report comment
This study is full of it. I worked in Assisted Living for over a decade. All these people do is sit and they’re living on and on and on… Look in the nursing homes, Alzheimer’s unit. Sad, but true. This study is bunk.
June 9, 2011 at 3:22 pm | | Report comment
You sound fat.
June 9, 2011 at 6:49 pm | | Report comment
How many of you just stood up?
June 9, 2011 at 6:42 am | | Report comment
Studies also show half of all heart attacks occur to obese people getting up out of their chairs.
June 9, 2011 at 8:12 am | | Report comment
What freedoms are they after now ?
June 9, 2011 at 9:34 am | | Report comment
Your God given right to do absolutely nothing!
June 9, 2011 at 10:17 am
I guess we sitting smokers are scr*wed.
June 9, 2011 at 6:44 am | | Report comment
yea we are now get up off your fat a** and grab another Dagwood
June 9, 2011 at 9:36 am | | Report comment
Thats why we get up for smoke breaks. So, if you get up to smoke it offsets the bad sitting. Works for me. Now if we can only find a study that proves drinking beer at work improves productivity.
June 9, 2011 at 11:52 am | | Report comment
Do These Friggin Lib’s Ever Give Up? What Next?
June 9, 2011 at 6:44 am | | Report comment
This is obvious . . .
Standing may is dangerous! We must stop standing! We must pass a law!
June 9, 2011 at 7:16 am | | Report comment
This isn’t politics. It’s about being healthy. Stop politicizing that which never was.
June 9, 2011 at 7:26 am
If you believe it isn’t political than I have a few bridges to sell you.
Looking forward to peddle to watch your tv?
June 9, 2011 at 8:17 am
So being an unhealthy fat a$$ is now part of the GOP platform?
June 9, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I’m a conservative, but I suggest that if you don’t like this, sit down and have a cigarette. We could use more room in the gene pool.
June 9, 2011 at 7:26 am | | Report comment
As a conservative, let me say that you are an idiot. Article is only pointing out that it’s healthy to not sit and to get off your butt. When Obama/Pelosi read this and try to pass a law banning chairs in the workplace and home and/or create a govt mandate to buy one of those treadmill desks mentioned in the article, that is when the liberalism kicks in.
June 9, 2011 at 9:15 am | | Report comment
Well said.
June 9, 2011 at 10:15 am
Libs?
Seriously when you inject politics into EVERYTHING in your life, you should jsut take those guns you NRA folks love so much, stick them in your mouths and pull the trigger!
This isnt about politics you idiot!
June 9, 2011 at 12:21 pm | | Report comment
Wonder who paid for this bit of bull*hit. Probably the taxpayers. Farting fouls the air and this study smells of “give me some free money.”
June 9, 2011 at 6:45 am | | Report comment
Who paid For This::: The Same International Mega Corporation Washington Lobbyists That Draft All Our Laws and Kill Our Soldiers in Foreign Corporate Ground Wars. Right?
June 9, 2011 at 8:19 am | | Report comment
Let this be a warning to people in wheelchairs.
June 9, 2011 at 6:45 am | | Report comment
What about second hand sitting?! Is that dangerous? Will Bloomberg out law sitting? Can’t wait.
June 9, 2011 at 6:47 am | | Report comment
Butt tax now! Do it for the children!
June 9, 2011 at 6:54 am | | Report comment
Ha ha ha ha. I laughed out loud when I read your comment, very well done.
June 9, 2011 at 6:58 am | | Report comment
This made me laugh right out loud, Amen!
June 9, 2011 at 8:07 am | | Report comment
Such BS….
June 9, 2011 at 6:48 am | | Report comment
pfft! scientists! what do they know?!?
June 9, 2011 at 8:44 am | | Report comment
Who is Dr Coven? Why should we care what he says? All the article says is that Dr Coven is a cardiologist, but gives no specifics, such as from where he graduated, where he practices (does he practice?), or whether he has ever been published. Other than that, the article’s sources are two random people who like to sit. This is shoddy.
June 9, 2011 at 6:48 am | | Report comment
Well to be fair, click here: http://www.healthgrades.com/directory_search/physician/profiles/dr-md-reports/dr-david-coven-md-1759c04d
But… so what. 100,000 other cardiologists will say something different.
June 9, 2011 at 6:51 am | | Report comment
I’m afraid not. All they will recommend moderate physical activity
June 9, 2011 at 6:56 am
more stupid nanny state leftist bs.
June 9, 2011 at 6:49 am | | Report comment
Study failed to disclose that the unscientific study was bought and paid for by the “Ronco Vibrating Exerciser Chair”, only 99,99 at a Chinamart near you.
June 9, 2011 at 8:16 am | | Report comment
You are a bad Uncle………This isnt leftist……………You are a Right wing sheep to interject politics into this issue……………your mind is gone………………..take your Guns you love, stick them in your mouth and do the world a favor and pull the trigger
June 9, 2011 at 1:10 pm | | Report comment
So using the same logic behind the regulations and taxation of smoking, can we expect a tax on sitting in public places soon? Maybe a ban on all public benches? The great and all knowing government does know whats best and has an obligation to look out for those that don’t know better.
June 9, 2011 at 6:49 am | | Report comment
Quick, let’s pass a law that requires all U.S. citizens to purchase a gym membership. This will reduce the cost of health care because people will now have access to a gym. For those of you that don’t think the Gov’t can’t make a U.S. citizen purchase something, they have already passed the Healthcare law that mandates you buy health insurance so why not this? For those of you that think the government mandating a gym membership is a good idea, please look beyond this and ask “what else are they going to force me to do?”
June 9, 2011 at 6:50 am | | Report comment
Not just gym memberships, but gym memberships at gyms owned by the banks…
June 9, 2011 at 6:52 am | | Report comment
Yes, and lets not forget to include that the gym must be unionized “green” gyms as well.
June 9, 2011 at 6:55 am
They could force all businesses to purchase stand up desks, or to implement an exercise program into the day. The possibilities are endless which is what makes obamacare such a dangerous slippery slope.
June 9, 2011 at 6:54 am | | Report comment
o like car insurance? or do you mean a yearly car registration? or were you referring to school taxes that force even people without kids to contribute to the public school system? don’t be crazy an act like this is the first thing the government has ever made you buy, if i had more time i could make a list as long as this article of things the government already makes you buy
June 9, 2011 at 9:24 am | | Report comment
The government does not force you to buy car insurance or car registration because they don’t force you to buy a car. Forcing the purchase of heath insurance is different because to be exempt you have to choose not to live (assuming you are not associated with one of Obama’s union masters).
June 9, 2011 at 9:43 am
…and you don’t have to pay taxes, if you choose not to work (or at least not make too much money working). I bet a significant portion of people okay with Government mandated health insurance pay an insignificant portion of the taxes needed to support it.
June 9, 2011 at 9:51 am
That sitting woman’s head is completely flat on top! That’s amazing. Reminds me of the joke of having a place to put your beer can at.
June 9, 2011 at 6:52 am | | Report comment
Tim’s comment: spoken from a true lazy obese man.
June 9, 2011 at 6:52 am | | Report comment
Beach..enough with the hate and intolerance.
June 9, 2011 at 7:41 am | | Report comment
New Restaurant Policy — No Smoking, No Sitting. New Michelle Obama Approved Menu.
June 9, 2011 at 6:54 am | | Report comment
i bet every one of you are fat
June 9, 2011 at 6:54 am | | Report comment
Insults are the last resort of the ignorant.
June 9, 2011 at 6:58 am | | Report comment
Because we are against being controlled? I am not fat, I play hockey and soccer, but let’s just pretend that I am for now. I would rather be fat and free than skinny and enslaved.
June 9, 2011 at 6:59 am | | Report comment
It’s a doctor’s recommendation, simple as that. There’s no hint in this article that a law will be put in place for you to stand.
All the comments here just give conservatives/drudge readers a bad name.
June 9, 2011 at 7:21 am
I’m not fat, but my cardiologist is.
June 9, 2011 at 7:16 am | | Report comment
When chairs are outlawed, only outlaws will have chairs.
June 9, 2011 at 6:55 am | | Report comment
Hahaha!!
June 9, 2011 at 6:59 am | | Report comment
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Guys I’m just as, if not more conservative than the anyone, but I truly do not get why you all are making this a political thing. This is a medical / science thing. If you do not agree with it then do your own research and come up with facts to support your hypothesis. Anyone who argues with science without scientific evidence to support their argument sounds pretty dumb. And it is common sense that sitting at your desk all day is bad for your health. I don’t need a doctor to tell me that.
June 9, 2011 at 6:58 am | | Report comment
Because reports like this are used to justify new laws under the guise of protecting the general public. I’m personally not arguing against the science of this study. The results of her study should be rather obvious. But there are those in our government that think they know better than the rest of us lowly constituents and use these reports as justification.
June 9, 2011 at 7:01 am | | Report comment
Please feel free to sit.
June 9, 2011 at 7:23 am
Michael, you are right. It all starts out with “INobody’s telling you what to do”… I see manadatory gym memberships and fines if you don’t get one….you know, like health insurance. I can see a brown shirt checking off my “gym time card” as I exit the building. BTW all of you…”I’m a conservative, but……….” Save it. You’re tools. Lemmings.
June 9, 2011 at 7:46 am
I am not disagreeing with the science of it. I don’t think it is really news that sitting in one spot for 40+ hours a week is good for a persons health. I think we are showing our cynicism in the article and looking ahead to what Congress does best, find a way to further control, for the good of the people of course (removing tongue from cheek)
June 9, 2011 at 7:02 am | | Report comment
Do you realize this is not a political debate? People need to chill out.
June 9, 2011 at 7:08 am
Because, unfortunately, the message of “movement for health” is way, way overplayed…..Reduce the carbs, and watch just about ALL health issues dissappear. I was fat and very active, now I am a very low carber….sit at a desk ALL day, and have perfect health.
The Gov., as with many things, has led us astray…
June 9, 2011 at 9:06 am | | Report comment
Because this is CBS. a division of Soros Nazi machine ( obama’s puppeteer) and it furthers his agenda.
Now do you understand?
June 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm | | Report comment
I smoke while sitting…
June 9, 2011 at 6:59 am | | Report comment
Wait a second… the doctor at the top of the article is…. *gasp*… SITTING at her desk… OMG… everything is twisted. Up is Down… Left is Right… cats and dogs sleeping together. Mass Hysteria!
June 9, 2011 at 7:00 am | | Report comment
Somewhere in TX, Dubya is drinking cheap beer and laughing his azz off.
June 9, 2011 at 7:00 am | | Report comment
What else does he have to do? He killed enough people to last the rest of his life.
June 9, 2011 at 7:24 am | | Report comment
^ bush derangment syndrome is a serious condition. How many has Obumbler killed by your logic? What are we at, three, four wars now? Sit down and have a smoke friendo.
June 9, 2011 at 7:39 am
Thanks to Obama, there is no such thing as cheap beer anymore. Sad but true.
June 9, 2011 at 3:36 pm | | Report comment
Check out http://www.juststand.org for tips on how to stand more throughout the day.
June 9, 2011 at 7:02 am | | Report comment
This article brought to you by the makers of “The Stand Up Desk” . If you act NOW you will not DIE!
June 9, 2011 at 7:03 am | | Report comment
“don’t send emails when you can deliver the message in person”
Seriously? Has the person who wrote that ever had a real job? People better not be lined up next to MY desk delivering messages in person!
June 9, 2011 at 7:04 am | | Report comment
So I guess sitting on your @$$ collecting welfare and unemployment is bad for your health…the cure is no more free money at taxpayer expense…work or starve!
June 9, 2011 at 7:05 am | | Report comment
I agree with incorporating more activity into each day, but complacent heifers need to be prodded. This article is suggestive, not yet Obamunist-authoritarian: lazy, saddle butted waddlers can do better than grow wide and soft on chairs and sofas.
June 9, 2011 at 7:06 am | | Report comment
Just like Cigarettes? Maybe we should BAN all Chairs or Tax their use
June 9, 2011 at 7:07 am | | Report comment
I’m a conservative and this is not a political issue unless Obama starts mandating standing desks.
I started standing at work in January and have noticed a difference. The corner of my desk actually elevates to waist height. I don’t feel as restless or sluggish and have lost a few pounds. I do sit down for lunch or if I just feel like sitting. I’ll usually only sit for 2-3 hours throughout the day. This is much better than 8 hours though. If you can get a standing desk, I’d highly recommend it.
June 9, 2011 at 7:08 am | | Report comment
Office workers can combat the ill effects of sitting by aggressively grinding their pelvises back and forth in their chairs. It will improve circulation greatly, and it won’t look odd. I promise.
June 9, 2011 at 7:09 am | | Report comment
Hey, it works…I’m already feeling great! And it has also increased my productivity, I had a line of people not wanting to send me an email lined up at my door..as soon as I started this they all left…I am now free to get my work done! Thanks for the advice Static!
June 9, 2011 at 7:15 am | | Report comment
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So remember kids, get up plenty during the day, at least once in the morning to get doughnuts, again at lunch to go to McDonalds, and again in the afternoon to the vending machine.
June 9, 2011 at 7:12 am | | Report comment
Now all we need is the scientific study that will tell us that, if we all wil drag two ton blocks into a pyrimid shape a mile high, that the world will soon be free from fat. The word on the street is that we will just be taxed a buck for every pound we weigh per month. Can’t wait.
June 9, 2011 at 7:15 am | | Report comment
This story is yet more proof that ‘Liberalism is a mental disorder’!
Where else but San Francisco would a story like this dare to appear in print?
June 9, 2011 at 7:15 am | | Report comment
In a number of places, actually. This isn’t the first story about this to hit the internet.
June 9, 2011 at 7:35 am | | Report comment
Love your screen name … hope you don’t live in SF; the know-nothings would be baying at your door.
June 9, 2011 at 10:33 am | | Report comment
If I stop sitting now will I be able to reverse the awful effects of years of sitting? And if so, how long will it take? Or is it too late for me (I’m 58). Gosh, I wish I’d known about this sooner.
June 9, 2011 at 7:15 am | | Report comment
actually, you all have it wrong, Obama doesn’t want us to sit, or stand…he wants us to kneel and pay homage to his greatness. So, kneeling, along with the revised food pyramid-into-a-michelle-concoction plate, will be standard government issue health wares.
June 9, 2011 at 7:17 am | | Report comment
We needed a study for this?
Breaking news: Sitting around on your fat ass all day is bad for you. Also breaking news, excercising is good for you.
June 9, 2011 at 7:17 am | | Report comment
Endless useless studies, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our rights:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama, vote for Ron Paul.
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June 9, 2011 at 7:17 am | | Report comment
Quick! Ban sitting in all public places! Airplanes, casinos, work places, court rooms, hospitals, restaurants, bars, theaters, city parks, cars with children. Time to install the “1984″ TVs into our houses to nake sure we are doing our daily exercises. I’d like to think I’m joking, but I see it as a soon to be reality.
June 9, 2011 at 7:18 am | | Report comment
P.S.: Can I sue my chair manufacturer for not posting a warning on my chair?
June 9, 2011 at 7:18 am | | Report comment
Really? We needed ANOTHER study to explain the obvious. How much taxpayer money for this useless study? Good grief, can we get a study on how much harm Liberals do to the country. Now, that would be a worthwhile study.
June 9, 2011 at 7:27 am | | Report comment
I wonder if his waiting room is a standing room only? He sounds like a pretty stand up guy! I guess after this report he’s standing tall. Hope he doesn’t have kids because he’d have a hard time finding a baby sitter.
June 9, 2011 at 7:29 am | | Report comment
…and in other news…… a new study released identified “life” as a terminal STD.
June 9, 2011 at 7:31 am | | Report comment
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I am contacting Congressman Anthony Weiner to lead the charge in this “Stand UP When You Can” initiative. Yes we can!
June 9, 2011 at 7:33 am | | Report comment
That does it! I am quiting my desk job and applying to be a porn star!
June 9, 2011 at 7:34 am | | Report comment
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LAME!!!
June 9, 2011 at 7:39 am | | Report comment
Next Week: Harry Reid introduces legislation to ban chairs
June 9, 2011 at 7:39 am | | Report comment
There must be a lawyer behind this. The suits from cops, truck drivers, airline pilots, etc., against their employers for increased health problems will soon follow.
June 9, 2011 at 7:41 am | | Report comment
Lets just start investing in giant boubles tio live in. Cause just waking up going outside could kill me any minute. Lets not foerget about the dangers of your house. Its just slowly killing you. Everything is as bad as smoking.
June 9, 2011 at 7:41 am | | Report comment
we better start giving desk job people at least 2 hours of paid work time to stand around. I’d be willing to wager this woman sits down after work too so that 7 hours a day maybe more like 22 hours a day? probably.
June 9, 2011 at 7:42 am | | Report comment
Ban Sitting! Tax Sitting! Ban and Tax- that’s the answer to everything, isn’t it?
June 9, 2011 at 7:42 am | | Report comment
Our founding fathers would be so proud, wouldn’t they?
=)
June 9, 2011 at 7:49 am | | Report comment
I’ve always been amused by the term “early death.” It implies that the actual date of someone’s death is known and that the person arrived early for the appointment.
The same holds true for “died before his time.” To be accurate, if it wasn’t “his time”, he wouldn’t be dead. Everybody dies; everybody has their “time.”
Truth is, we begin to die the moment we draw our first breath.
June 9, 2011 at 7:42 am | | Report comment
The real problem here is that manufacturers are allowed to install legs on their chairs. Ban chair legs and this problem goes away.
If we could save just one!
June 9, 2011 at 7:47 am | | Report comment
Standing in the street can be dangerous too. I’ll bet some liberal is doing a study on that one right now…
=)
June 9, 2011 at 7:48 am | | Report comment
Considering the countless number of office jobs since the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s’s, 80′s, 90′s et al- shouldn’t everyone, more or less, be dead? I’m just waiting for our eminent Surgeon General to claim you can die if you sit down just once.
June 9, 2011 at 7:49 am | | Report comment
At my job when I go on break, which I usually don’t, I sit down because my feet hurt from back breaking labor. Wanna trade? Its for your own good.
June 9, 2011 at 7:49 am | | Report comment
What’s the deal with people trying to politicize this? Isn’t it obvious that being sedentary for forty plus hours a week is unhealthy?
June 9, 2011 at 7:50 am | | Report comment
he’ll sign it sitting down.
June 9, 2011 at 7:54 am | | Report comment
Great! Now we can look forward to government mandated standing laws…
=(
June 9, 2011 at 7:50 am | | Report comment
It’s a sure bet that president obummer will create a commision to further study standing in the workplace and at home…
=)
June 9, 2011 at 7:52 am | | Report comment
I propose Bill H249S01 To Ban all chairs by 2018.
Just thought I would propose it before the government.
June 9, 2011 at 7:53 am | | Report comment
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Are you kidding me? Sitting is deadly? Are you serious? Really? Sitting? Deadly? Is this for real? How stupid do you think we are?
Just goes to show you there’s a quack somewhere in the world that’s willing to sound like an ass to get attention.
June 9, 2011 at 7:57 am | | Report comment
Funny how most these days can turn anything political or that they are invading your rights.
Most of you would not take a job that requires labor anyway. You want to sit at your desk and collect big money for no physical action at all. That is America today and you wonder why the job of building widgets got shipped overseas.
No common sense. Just complaining about the things you have caused your self.
June 9, 2011 at 8:03 am | | Report comment
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The universe is infinitely large and our planet is a small speck, and each of us smaller still. And we’re going to die no matter what. So sit down, have a smoke, enjoy your limited time.
June 9, 2011 at 8:12 am | | Report comment
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‘Second hand ‘sitting. What about that? Is it harmful too?
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June 9, 2011 at 8:12 am | | Report comment
That settles it. We must tax sitting immediately!
June 9, 2011 at 8:13 am | | Report comment
As an avid cyclist I have questions. I sit while riding my bike. This means that I sit at a higher rate of speed than others. Will my accelerated sitting cause me to die sooner or will it be mitigated by the exercise of riding the bike?
June 9, 2011 at 8:14 am | | Report comment
OMG Doggiedog that was so funny I dropped my cigarette on my chair! LOLOL!
June 9, 2011 at 12:43 pm | | Report comment
Shows the importance of getting up and stretching…take a cigarette break.
June 9, 2011 at 8:16 am | | Report comment
Living life almost ALWAYS leads to death.
June 9, 2011 at 8:16 am | | Report comment
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Haven’t read the comment thread so I don’t know if this has been mentioned. As a architect I have advocated stand-up desks for many years. The old drafting tables were stand-up with a stool to sit on, lean against or simply ignore. It is a great way to work. A rail or some sort of step-up below the desk lets the user bring up one foot and is very helpful to relieving back strain.
If you can get you company to switch. Ernest Hemingway, Donald Rumsfeld and many other famous people have found these arrangements to be excellent alternatives.
June 9, 2011 at 8:16 am | | Report comment
It’s studies like this that make us all ignore studies.
June 9, 2011 at 8:16 am | | Report comment
Is this study supposed to be groundbreaking or cutting edge? I wonder how much research was done to arrive at this conclusion. I wonder if taxpayer dollars funded this research (:
June 9, 2011 at 8:17 am | | Report comment
Why don’t they do a study on fluoride and how it causes cancer? The same amount that is in one glass of most public water systems is the exact amount the toothpaste tube tells you to “seek medical attention” for.
Fluoride also attacks the thyroid, causing lethargy.
Fluoride is a carcinogen.
Fluoride causes bone fluorosis (fragile, hard bones).
Ingestion of fluoride has shown no measurable increase in the strength of teeth, it is only external application that makes a difference.
If you don’t believe me, look around a bit. Think for yourself.
June 9, 2011 at 8:23 am | | Report comment
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So let me get this straight, the average life span of a human is now around 72 years old, so if I don’t sit my average life span will now be ? 74 ? 76? i think i’ll take the 72 and still sit.
June 9, 2011 at 8:35 am | | Report comment
This is the usual rationalization and justification we get from the hardcore chair addict. We can’t help you until you hit bottom. In the meantime, try to remember that Denial isn’t a river in Egypt. Hope that helps.
June 9, 2011 at 8:53 am | | Report comment
complain and self reason all you want. I watched my Grandmother sit all the time, she lived to be 86.. so deny that.
June 9, 2011 at 2:43 pm
The researcher in the photograph is probably terminal then. Just a matter of time now. Could be days, could be years …
June 9, 2011 at 8:36 am | | Report comment
“If you think that hour of cardio you do every day negates the effect of your desk job, think again.”
Has Dr. Mulvihill MET an American?
June 9, 2011 at 8:37 am | | Report comment
Great now my Health Insurance will charge me more for standing. Thankfully, I don’t sit and smoke at the same time…:)
June 9, 2011 at 8:40 am | | Report comment
Supplemental stand-up desks like from standupdesks.com or schoolsin.com are growing in popularity even though they have been around for hundreds of years.
June 9, 2011 at 8:41 am | | Report comment
You can bet your a$$ that George W. Bush was in bed with Big Chair.
To compound the problem, Mexican chair cartels are using their ill-gotten gains to buy off our politicians. I know it sounds wacky, but I think we should consider legalizing chair and diverting enforcement funds to treatment.
June 9, 2011 at 8:48 am | | Report comment
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So meditation is a suicidal practice, that’s what I thought.
June 9, 2011 at 8:58 am | | Report comment
The opening pages of “1984″ reveal mandatory exercise is coming. That damn book reads like a step by step plan being followed, except no nukes….yet
June 9, 2011 at 9:00 am | | Report comment
We have changed some of our desk heights and purchased directors chairs. Most stand and seem to be far more productive. IT not impossible to answer a phone work on a computer or eat lunch standing. Get off your butts.
June 9, 2011 at 9:01 am | | Report comment
A saddle is just another variety of chair. You’re fooling no one with this blatant hypocrisy! If PETA doesn’t have a chapter devoted entirely to eliminating saddles in our lifetime, it’s time we started one!
Disclaimer: No animals were harmed or abused in the production of this post.
June 9, 2011 at 9:13 am | | Report comment
We needed “new research” to be able to know this?
How about: “Americans continue to become more and more stupid as they depend on experts to run their lives for them instead of relying on common sense.”
June 9, 2011 at 9:02 am | | Report comment
We are not aloud to smoke in my place of work,so I have to get up and about 25 times a day. So that makes me the healthiest smoker in the whole building.
June 9, 2011 at 9:07 am | | Report comment
The Sturgeon Generalissemo has determined that LIVING can be hazardous to your health. Health-conscious citizens have therefore decided to STOP living. Future suggestions will be forthcoming from the EXPERTS.
June 9, 2011 at 9:17 am | | Report comment
Where is former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders when we could so desperately need a calm voice of reason in this highly volatile and divisive debate? She was so effective in garnering bi-partisan support for “teaching the children to masturbate.” So sad.
Genius is often unappreciated in its own time.
June 9, 2011 at 10:18 am | | Report comment
Don’t leak this information to anyone in a wheelchair. My great great great great grandma might die from sitting before her 98th birthday this August.
June 9, 2011 at 9:19 am | | Report comment
I refuse to take this report sitting down. Who else wants to take a stand?
June 9, 2011 at 9:20 am | | Report comment
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll sit still for anything.
I’m tempted to walk away from this chair thing in disgust, but if you’re willing to take a stand, I’ll support you if you want to run for a seat in congress.
June 9, 2011 at 9:37 am | | Report comment
Sure, run for Congress, Static, but please don’t be a weiner about this.
June 9, 2011 at 10:40 am
I’m gonna take a seat and have a smoke.
June 9, 2011 at 10:38 am | | Report comment
HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!!!!!!!!!!
Last I heard, Weiner declined to resign in favor of remaining a member in good standing.
June 9, 2011 at 11:12 am
That sounds kinda crazy when you think about it.
http://www.online-privacy.no.tc
June 9, 2011 at 9:24 am | | Report comment
Should be interesting to see how it all works out.
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June 9, 2011 at 9:25 am | | Report comment
Doesn’t research also show that laughing is good for your health? I’ve gotten such a kick out of some of these comments that it should negate the harmful habits of sitting to read them.
June 9, 2011 at 9:26 am | | Report comment
This article may not be political and It may not be a political issue today but rest assured it will be. Legislation will be drafted to address the “public welfare” regarding this.
June 9, 2011 at 9:31 am | | Report comment
Relax everyone1 In just a few years they will find sitting is healthy. Until then I guess we are supposed to stand all day like horses and cows while grazing on the fruits and veggies (if they don’t give us e coli) that we are told we must eat in greater quantities (until they discover fruits and veggies aren’t good for us either). I have pretty much given up listening to all of this. I eat and drink anything I want in moderation, walk frequently, take my vitamins. Other than that, let the chips fall where they may. I’m not going to live forever and I accept that. I am tired of being constantly warned that everything I do, eat, and drink that is pleasurable is bad for me.
June 9, 2011 at 9:36 am | | Report comment
Let’s see. Don’t smoke, don”t drink anything other than water, chocolate’s off-limits, and eggs, and cheese. At some point, you just have to dig in your heels, and enjoy that plate of Eggs Benedict. No, not every morning, but once a month won’t kill you
June 9, 2011 at 9:37 am | | Report comment
I can hardly wait for the report on second hand sitting.
June 9, 2011 at 9:44 am | | Report comment
Id be interested to see if stimulus money paid for the study because it sure does seem to favor Michelle’s “Lets Move” campaign and Barry’s “get off my back about smoking” initiatives…logically, the study merely promotes common sense, so why else look into it without political motives
June 9, 2011 at 9:48 am | | Report comment
This is why I sit AND smoke. The two negatives cancel each other out!
June 9, 2011 at 9:51 am | | Report comment
Here’s a link to a Sit/Stand desk. They’re a must have. http://www.csnstores.com/7-190-105-Maple-Cherry-Espresso-JJP1051.html
June 9, 2011 at 9:55 am | | Report comment
I just sat down for a smoke.
June 9, 2011 at 10:09 am | | Report comment
It’s a barkalounger, but yeah, my 106 ln ass likes it. Get over your issues with lounge chairs. Jeez . . .
June 9, 2011 at 10:11 am | | Report comment
meant 106 pound ass and barcalounger, but anyway . . .
June 9, 2011 at 10:14 am | | Report comment
Stop being a NANNY STATE!!!! WE DO NOT WANT IT!!!!
I have major back problems, I can stand about 15 minutes then I have to sit! Stop worrying about me!
Welcome to the USSA / Nanny / Police State!
June 9, 2011 at 10:14 am | | Report comment
My mother just turned 96, with no end in sight, & she’s been sitting in her recliner for over 40 years. Her mother passed at 86 & had been sitting in her rocking chair for about the same length of time. Genetics.
June 9, 2011 at 10:19 am | | Report comment
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Wasn’t the die thing supposed to happen roughly a month ago?
June 9, 2011 at 10:23 am | | Report comment
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Obama should sit down and relax when he smokes.
June 9, 2011 at 10:28 am | | Report comment
Does that mean all these government bureaucRATS are going to drop dead soon?
June 9, 2011 at 10:31 am | | Report comment
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Now I have a reason to take a cigarette break
June 9, 2011 at 10:36 am | | Report comment
If we’re serious about this, we’ll demand a standing committee in Congress with an effective chairman.
June 9, 2011 at 10:40 am | | Report comment
THe government does NOT want people to stop buying tobacco. It just wants to collaborate with the drug company that sells nicotine replacement products to their mutual benefit. The government says smoking is so bad that it justified the higher taxes. But you will notice that no state, nor the Feds are suggesting banning the selling. So, it must be concluded that smoking at home around the kiddies is alright, but smoking in a bar is not. You might want to look up how much your state is getting in tobacco taxes. And then add the Federal tax to that. Johnson and Johnson sells Nicoderm, Nicorette, Nicotrol, Nicoderm CQ, and Commit Lozenges. They, and their “philanthropic arm” fund all this ban propaganda, and California grant spongers get the lion’s share! J&J’s new “war” on obesity started after they bought Splenda, and passed a bunch of smoking bans. J&J wanted to fatten everybody up before they announced that obesity now causes cancer and heart attacks.
June 9, 2011 at 10:46 am | | Report comment
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We need to ban all sitting in public places to prevent second hand sitting. Lets burn all the chairs! A good old fashioned chair buring!
June 9, 2011 at 10:51 am | | Report comment
What about all the varicose veins, foot problems and poor circulation of those who stand all day?
June 9, 2011 at 10:52 am | | Report comment
I saw this coming years ago and learned to hang from the ceiling like a bat. It’s the way to go if you care anything about your health.
June 9, 2011 at 10:55 am | | Report comment
Amazing coincidences. Unless I dreamed it, we started developing catastrophic holes in the ozone layer around the time that the Dupont patent on old bad freon was set to expire. Good thing we banned that nasty stuff and started using the new safe refrigerant they had ready for us. We have so many people in high places looking out for our well-being. We have much to be grateful for.
June 9, 2011 at 10:53 am | | Report comment
I can see it now, chair tax, chair czar, sitting fees and taxes, chair swat teams breaking down the door of grandmothers for spending their retirement years in a chair. Picture of Whistler’s mother in a rocking chair becoming contraband and illegal to show in or within 50 miles of a school. In general hard working US citizens who finance the success of the word being punished and fined for sitting around after working 8-12 hour days and giving up all vacations and recreational activities to pay all their other fines and fees and taxes. Of course illegal’s get a free pass and in addition recliners under a US tax financed chair stimulus program. And all of course congress and their “friends” will get waivers. etc, etc etc!!!
June 9, 2011 at 11:02 am | | Report comment
No civilized society would fail to implement reasonable lumbar support as part of the social safety net for the less fortunate among us. You know…the ones who failed to win life’s lottery? lumbar support is the right of every human being with the minor exception of working taxpayers. It is more or less a given that the backbone of society does not require lumbar support. It’s really absurd when you think about it. Isn’t it?
June 9, 2011 at 11:49 am | | Report comment
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So how long is an ‘extended’ period of time? Wish they’d say……
June 9, 2011 at 11:13 am | | Report comment
A morbidly obese Ohio man fused himself to a chair he had been sitting in for two years. I’m guessing that might qualify for an extended period. A$$ and fabric as one. A truly unique SITuation.
June 9, 2011 at 11:37 am | | Report comment
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Now, progressives have good reason to outlaw sitting in restaurants, businesses, government buildings, parks, hotels, and especially San Francisco and New York’s Central Park.
June 9, 2011 at 11:17 am | | Report comment
“HealthWatch: Sitting Vs. Smoking
June 8, 2011 9:59 PM
Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.”
Kpix Television Channel 5
855 Battery Street
(between Broadway St & Pacific Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94111
Dear KPIX,
I don’t mind at all seeing your news program highlight the dangers of prolonged sitting. But the comparison to smoking is absurd.
I appreciate that you need provocative leads to keep people’s attention. But you have implied that sitting and smoking are equivalent health detriments, and this is not the case; sitting is not a known carcinogen.
Please be more careful. You owe it to the community that relies on you for information.
Sincerely,
Carol Denney
1970 San Pablo Avenue #4
Berkeley, CA 94702
June 9, 2011 at 11:18 am | | Report comment
Wowthats kinda crazy when you think about it.
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June 9, 2011 at 11:35 am | | Report comment
I have always suspected that adjustable desks, that would allow you to sit for short periods of time and easily raise up to standing height made a lot of sense. The problem has always been the cost. But the prices have come down A LOT. The last time I checked, you could get a fully electric, easily adjustable desk for $599.00. Here’s a link:
http://www.ergodepot.com/Adjustable_Desks_s/134.htm
June 9, 2011 at 11:51 am | | Report comment
I’m sorry but I never understood the “Get your heart pumping because its MUCH better for you” mentality.. Sure I believe in exercising, but in my opinion working your body over like that can’t be quite as good as everyone thinks.. Consider this.. If a car salesman came up to you and said “Make sure you rev the engine to redline at least 1 hour a day” would you believe its a good idea?
June 9, 2011 at 11:55 am | | Report comment
I’m really glad that you provided the link at the end of your article so I could go read the actual research. It doesn’t say what your article says it does.
You talk about people sitting at work. The article specifically addresses “nonoccupational sitting behavior,” and “screen-based entertainment.” In other words, it’s a study of how people spend their leisure hours, not their work hours.
June 9, 2011 at 12:01 pm | | Report comment
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My God, another stupid Liberal study to try and tell everyone how to live and a study to keep a bunch of Liberals employed! Tell you what, but I’ll sit as much as I want; ride my mountain bike as much as I want; drink as much coffee as I want; fire as many bullets through my weapons as I want; drive however many miles I want; and smoke if I desire to! Is it 2012 yet?
June 9, 2011 at 12:28 pm | | Report comment
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Saying that smoking kills, is only theory. I don’t smoke, but I sure love the smell of a cigar and cigarette now and then. Why isn’t smoking a joint listed here? One joint is equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes and pot is chock full of mercury. So idiots who smoke pot most certainly sit alot, so will the combination kill you sooner? Michelle Obama says eating fast food will kill you, but she eats like a horse and most of it is junk food. Unbelievable!
June 9, 2011 at 12:33 pm | | Report comment
To maintain health you must have adequate amounts of exercise, rest and nutrition.
But to say that an hour of cardio every day doesn’t negates the effects of your desk job, is simply not true.
June 9, 2011 at 12:35 pm | | Report comment
I would love for the people who wrote this article to explain my case. I served a 22 year career in the U.S. military. I ate a healthy diet, kept my weight inside the parameters, exercised regulary and had all of my lab results inside the norms. After the military I continued to excerised regualrly and maintained the same habits as when I was in service, never smoked a day in my life, and drank only on occasion, maybe a beer or glass of wine with dinner. Then two years after retirement from the Army, I began having spells of fatigue. Blood tests revealed that I had acute Myeloid Leukemia. Yep that healthy living did me a lot of good…didn’t it?
June 9, 2011 at 12:42 pm | | Report comment
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From American College of Cardiology report :
“Although some evidence suggests that prolonged sitting is linked to CVD risk factor development regardless of physical activity participation, studies with hard outcomes are scarce.”
So once again the media sells us half baked unproven theories as “Fact”.
June 9, 2011 at 12:50 pm | | Report comment
The Galaxy is exapnding, we need to deploy graviton generators to hold the celestial bodies in position and prevent further expansion, if we don’t, in two maybe three billion years interplanetary travel sill be impossible, even with Warp Drive.
June 9, 2011 at 12:55 pm | | Report comment
NO, NO, NO! THIS SIMPLY WILL NOT DO! WE MUST BAN ALL SITTING FROM NOW ON!!!
F-O-R T-H-E C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N!
BAN IT! BAN IT! BAAAAAAAAAAN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 9, 2011 at 1:04 pm | | Report comment
7 hours.???…breaks???…..how about 10 hours….no breaks….except one or two bathroom visits…..eat lunch while working at a desk….SITTING……..ahhh the glorious life of WALL STREET……..and NO, I do not make millions….not even CLOSE!!! I do eat reasonably well and run, bike, walk etc…..and feel really good for 46 years old….well, with the exception of the achy joints and occasional muscle tweaks. Peace
June 9, 2011 at 1:05 pm | | Report comment
Time to outlaw chairs.
June 9, 2011 at 1:09 pm | | Report comment
I suppose they are going to take away wheel chairs then make the disabled and smokers wear helium balloons.
It’s safe to smoke as long as you float.
June 9, 2011 at 1:12 pm | | Report comment
No, Hydrogen ballons that way they can go out with a bang.
June 9, 2011 at 1:26 pm | | Report comment
So we should only smoke while standing? Or lying down?
June 9, 2011 at 1:20 pm | | Report comment
WOW! This has gone all over the place. This article is explaining what we all already know. If we don’t take care of our self we will die fat. The fact is that at one point we will die. But the point of this article to be better interpreted is, if we eat right, and not sit for so long periods of time, we may live life a little healthier. We all may not like the new health law, but others do. I don’t agree that we have to pay for others health insurance, unless it is my family, but on the other hand I am glad that people can no longer be denied insurance due to pre-existing conditions.
If we would take the energy we all used to respond to this article and use it to truly research our political prospects or candidates without excluding candidates because of their political party association, we would probably end up with a better government. We may complain about our government, politicians, and the laws they create, but remember one thing, it is we the people who vote for them and hire them to work for us or against us. In reference to the big Corporations and their lobbies who corrupt our government into making the wrong decisions, well we may also be at fault for this, as the main consumers of the products and services they provide. Remember we the consumer have made them this powerful, but go ahead and continue to complaint about our government, sit at your chairs and type away on and show your anger about our government, and the laws created on sites or articles like this one. The truth is we will never fix it this way. Spend your time writing to your government, local, State, and Federal and let them know your disappointments. If this was done collectively they will listen.
June 9, 2011 at 1:27 pm | | Report comment
can u get lung cancer from sitting too much?
June 9, 2011 at 1:38 pm | | Report comment
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Ban Cigarettes! Tobacco is BAD, but POT? POT’s okay.
Limosine Liberals, want US to drive toy cars, to save the planet!
But they ride their LIMOS, Smoke pot, and have SEX in the back, and burn lots of Gas! They want US to Save the Planet so they can HAVE IT ALL…Saving the Planet means PAY MORE TAXES to the ELITE.
June 9, 2011 at 2:21 pm | | Report comment
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How do this study account for the millions of people sitting around in nursing homes?
June 9, 2011 at 3:25 pm | | Report comment
So San Francisco will likely be the first city to require waning labels on all public sats “Warning sitting can be dangerous to your health.”
How will they deal with “Second hand sitting” Are pay sitting meters in public places far behind.
June 9, 2011 at 3:28 pm | | Report comment
birth is the single biggest cause of death. chew on that for a while, stupid pukes.
June 9, 2011 at 4:42 pm | | Report comment
in the interests of fairness … perhaps sitting, for over a certain number hours per day should be taxed … rather like us, pariah smokers … or rather not like the obese, who are not taxed … lets also tax illegal drugs, heaven and hell forbid, … lets be nuts and legislate and tax fairly ::.
June 9, 2011 at 4:42 pm | | Report comment
I agree. That is why every hour I get out of my chair, walk down 4 flights of stairs, step outside and have a cigarette
June 9, 2011 at 5:07 pm | | Report comment
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I never stand when I can sit, and I never sit when I can lay down.
Winston Churchill
June 9, 2011 at 6:02 pm | | Report comment
So I should smoke standing up?
June 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm | | Report comment
If exercise is healthy, why have several pro athletes died from heart attacks and some have died on the field of play whiel engaging in exercise. Pete Maravich died while playing a game of Basketball. Basketball player Reggie Lewis died of heart attack during a pregame practice. But if they must have a case of an athlete dying while bot sitting and in the performance of their sport, there is always Frank Hayes, a jockey who died from a heart attack while riding his horse Sweet Kiss to victory at Belmont Park.
I beleive as Redd Foxx once said,
“One of these days you’ll feel like a damned fool laying in the hospital dying from nothing.”
June 9, 2011 at 6:19 pm | | Report comment
I plan to sit a lot, in my recliner. If Dr. Mulvihill, M.D. should ever come visit my home I’ll hide all that chairs so she can stand for the duration of her visit.
June 9, 2011 at 6:23 pm | | Report comment
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Hmmm.. Who do you think has more knee and back pain after 10 years? The cashier who stands all day or the computer programmer who sits down to work 12 hours a day?
A nice comfortable chair is the best medicine. Where is it written if you sit down all day youre instantly fat? I am not fat at all, though I do consume a lot of diet soda!!!
June 9, 2011 at 6:38 pm | | Report comment