Sitting Down? You're So Screwed

JDS: blogging, sitting, dying

Not since we found out that coffee will prevent us from committing suicide have we been so shocked by a study. Bloomberg News finally sifted through that report that's been going around and pulled out this gem: sitting down will kill you. Are you sitting down right now? Well, hopefully you are drinking coffee to counteract it, and not watching television (which will also kill you).

The site notes that "too much sitting, and not just a lack of exercise, may cause heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses. The more time people spend in a completely sedentary state, independent of the exercise they get at other times, the higher their risk of becoming obese, and developing diabetes, heart disease and cancer." As bloggers, this is particularly disheartening news. Should we start working standing up, like Donald Rumsfeld, or get real jobs?

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By Jen Carlson in News on January 19, 2010 4:42 PM

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unsunghiro

is that john del signore.. i thought he would look more, i dunno... ethnic ?

sakebalboa

this is why people should smoke more at work.

Guest

i hear that living will kill you too.

Kevin Walsh

I wish I could jump into an HG Wells time machine and travel to 3000 AD. Why? By then, we will be able to do ANYTHING WE WANT. Exercise or NOT exercise. Sit or stand. Vegan or meat eater. Smoke or not smoke. As much pizza as you want, or as much broccoli as you want.

And no nagging idiots telling you your lifestyle is all wrong. By 3000, we'll have figured out how to make it ALL GOOD.

www.forgotten-ny.com

hunter.blatherer

I sit down in the morning with my coffee. Then I work*. And then sometimes I sit down and read the dribble that gothamist commenters write while they're not working (but getting paid).

*work (n): something that does not involve computers

Spirit of 76

dribble (n):

1 : a tiny or insignificant bit or quantity

2 : a small trickling stream or flow

3 : an act, instance, or manner of dribbling a ball or puck

drivel (n):

1: "see nonsense"

2: comments often seen on Gothamist, especially from people who overestimate their own intelligence

Spirit of 76

Oops. Misplaced quotation mark.

1: see "nonsense"

Kojak

I sit often but will periodically lean to one side to let go a few farts, then sit back in my usual position.

I consider that exercise enough.

Trilby16

If this were true I would have been widowed years ago. SIGH!!!!

tom9d

The stress of my modern office has caused me to go into a depression.

just saying

But you're very wrong in saying that sitting is killing JDS.

Those statistics can't apply to him since JDS obviously spends considerably more time than most surfing the net for porn. (In fact, he looks like he could be doing that in the above photo.) The end result for JDS is that he's greatly benefitted his heart by increasing his blood circulation.