Author Topic: Sitting At Work For Hours Can Be As Unhealthy As Smoking (Read 942 times)

Binechi · « **on:** January 21, 2014, 12:53:46 PM »

Sitting At Work For Hours Can Be As Unhealthy As Smoking

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/20/sitting-at-work-for-hours-can-be-as-unhealthy-as-smoking/

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Take a stand for your health — literally.

Doctors are urging the millions of people who work at a desk all day to stand up or walk around the office.

As CBS 2′s Dr. Max Gomez reported, our couch-potato lifestyle is killing us at about the same rate as smoking.

And it’s not just sitting around at home; it’s also our sit-for-hours workdays that are part of an unhealthy sedentary lifestyle.

“Sitting is probably killing me,” said Linda Caufield, of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Caufiled is right. A number of studies have shown that prolonged sitting is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer and even early death.

Traditional Guy 20 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2014, 05:43:14 PM »

Luckily my job is pure manual labor, along with the running I do, so I am not worried about being unhealthy. :cool:

ggreg · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2014, 06:47:14 PM »

Nobody has avoided death yet.

Joe · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2014, 06:51:58 PM »

I was able to get a standing desk in my cube, so I don't have to sit all day. Also I do a lot of walking at work naturally, and I almost never take the elevator. We're doing a fitness challenge thingy right now and I found out that I'm taking about 2,000 steps a day, despite the fact that I have a desk job.