Chair Sitting Kills!
Sitting Kills, Moving Heals: How Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness, and Early Death - and Exercise Alone Won't by Joan Vernikos PhD
"Citing her original NASA research on how weightlessness weakens astronauts' muscles, bones, and overall health, the author presents a simple and effective plan for maintaining good health throughout life by developing new lifestyle habits of frequent gravity-challenging movement."
You Might Want to Sit Down for This by Mark Sisson, 10/6/2009, http://www.marksdailyapple.com/sitting-unhealthy/#axzz27xUhel84
Chairs did not become relatively common in the West until the 16th century. "Think of the chair as a crutch – use when needed, but don’t rely on it too much or you’ll never be able to graduate."
Why sitting all day is killing you
By DAVE JOHNSON / MONEYWATCH/ July 23, 2012, 6:45 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57474678/why-sitting-all-day-is-killing-you/
"The effects of spending too much time in a chair are manifold. Electrical activity in leg muscles shuts down; your body effectively stops burning calories; enzymes that break down fat drop by 90 percent; HDL cholesterol production drops by 20 percent; and the risk of diabetes increases 24 percent."
"Citing her original NASA research on how weightlessness weakens astronauts' muscles, bones, and overall health, the author presents a simple and effective plan for maintaining good health throughout life by developing new lifestyle habits of frequent gravity-challenging movement."
You Might Want to Sit Down for This by Mark Sisson, 10/6/2009, http://www.marksdailyapple.com/sitting-unhealthy/#axzz27xUhel84
Chairs did not become relatively common in the West until the 16th century. "Think of the chair as a crutch – use when needed, but don’t rely on it too much or you’ll never be able to graduate."
Why sitting all day is killing you
By DAVE JOHNSON / MONEYWATCH/ July 23, 2012, 6:45 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57474678/why-sitting-all-day-is-killing-you/
"The effects of spending too much time in a chair are manifold. Electrical activity in leg muscles shuts down; your body effectively stops burning calories; enzymes that break down fat drop by 90 percent; HDL cholesterol production drops by 20 percent; and the risk of diabetes increases 24 percent."