Sitting dangerous to health !

[Facetious]

Sitting Deemed Dangerous for Your Health: What's Next?
January 20, 2010.


I'm guessing there are a lot of occupations that are dangerous -- professional sports, vocations involving heavy machinery, toxic chemicals, grueling labor conditions, precarious heights. I know there are some jobs I simply could never do -- repairing bridges, laying asphalt, wrestling ferocious animals to the ground .. and there's probably a few others.

But I always thought that my job as a writer, which involves sitting in front of a computer all day, was a pretty good gig when compared to so many other people -- the folks picking crops in pesticide dusted fields with little water and poor sanitation probably about 100 or so miles from my home, for starters.

Sure, I get some neck and back pain, but not to worry right? Well, apparently not. Now the AP is reporting about a new study that concludes that sitting, yep, just sitting, is deadly....

..it continues.. This is news ?

 

[Jack Davenport]

If someone sits a lot and has certain risk factors to start with, the chances of an embolism pulmonary or otherwise are very real and are no laughing matter.

 

[Legzman]

as I sit here and read this...I'm not persuaded to get up off my lazy ass and do shit.

 

[Master_Gio]

Sitting here and been in pain from sitting at work, this is def NOT the cheeriest news of the day...

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Sitting for too long without getting up can result in clots in your legs. That has to be a shitload of sitting as well as under certain conditions. Either way it depends from person to person.

 

[titsrock]

The Founding Fathers did a lot of sitting around on their asses as they carved up the world and fattened their estates at the expense of the tax payer, Little Farmer Brown (I know, I've seen the paintings )

Just sayin'....:dunno:

 

[MATUTE]

What does this mean?

The daily participation in the Freeones board for a few hours is dangerous to our hearts?

Freeones have insurance for us?

I need a lawyer? :dunno:

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Well, I'm sitting down, and I have heartburn.

 

[DJCowboy]

So you're saying I should be standing, holding on to a laptop while I jerk off? Sorry, not gonna happen