Crazy Fact About Sitting ...

**Equilibrium** · 12-08-2012 03:19 PM

I sit for the majority of my job. So I guess I'm screwed.

Get up off your chair -- your life is at stake, a new study suggests.
Sitting more than six hours a day raises your risk of death, even if you work out, said the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Even if they exercised, women who sat six or more hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die over a 13-year period than people who sat less than three hours a day, the study said. And men who sat more than six hours a day had an 18 percent higher risk of death over a 13-year period than men who sat three or fewer hours a day.
The death risk was even higher for people who don't work out. The least active women in the study who also reported the highest amount of sitting were 94 percent more likely to die than those who said they sat the least and exercised the most. For men, it was 48 percent, the study said.
The study included 53,440 men and 69,776 women who were followed between 1993 and 2006.
Heart disease was more linked with the deaths than cancer was, researchers said, and there are a number of factors that could account for the study results.
"Prolonged time spent sitting, independent of physical activity, has been shown to have important metabolic consequences, and may influence things like triglycerides, high density lipoprotein, cholesterol, fasting plasma glucose, resting blood pressure, and leptin," American Cancer Society researcher Alpa Patel, Ph.D., said in a statement.

Those factors are signs of obesity, heart disease and other chronic diseases, he said.
This isn't the first study to link too much siting with risk of death. Past studies, including one published last year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that sitting for long periods of time -- whether at a desk, in the car or in front of the TV -- raises the risk of death, despite how much you exercise.

**DenjaX** · 12-08-2012 03:24 PM

hmmm so sitting down can kill you. I guess lying down is more safe.

**X e Y U Z i O** · 12-08-2012 03:49 PM

I'm too young to die.

**nrL** · 12-08-2012 03:57 PM

Sitting a lot can make me obese, and obesity is unhealthy.

Well, duh.

**sabishii1/2** · 12-08-2012 04:11 PM

That and the fact that you can die from boredom...... So I guess I should cut down my school hours

**Light Buster** · 12-08-2012 04:22 PM

That's why I go to arcades and tournaments every so often when I can.

**Albear** · 12-08-2012 04:39 PM

And I thought standing up all day was bad..

**Forbichi** · 12-08-2012 04:57 PM

..... I'm gonna sit 10 + hours a day anyway. Hah!

Oh and i think my boss would fire me if i said i can't sit for more than 3 hours. ... (thats more healthy right?)

**Femme Fatale** · 12-08-2012 05:07 PM

V_V Goodbye world! I sit alllllllll day no stopping that.

**nrL** · 12-08-2012 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Light Buster

arcades and tournaments

What!? Arcades are alive in south California!?
DO WANT

but, what are these "tournaments" you speak of?

**Light Buster** · 12-08-2012 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by nathanromml

What!? Arcades are alive in south California!?
DO WANT

but, what are these "tournaments" you speak of?

Wednesday Fight Nights (WFN) and the Runback every Thrusday.

**wolfgirl90** · 12-08-2012 09:02 PM

**LeiaHeart** · 12-08-2012 09:59 PM

People can DIE for sitting down for too long?! O_O No, that's not true.......is it??

**sabishii1/2** · 12-09-2012 02:28 AM

That's why they called it Crazy Fact... because it's crazy

**darksky967** · 12-09-2012 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by DenjaX

hmmm so sitting down can kill you. I guess lying down is more safe.

God damn that's funny haha

**Zeref** · 12-09-2012 09:20 PM

Well damn, what isn't bad for our health these days? Before you know it breathing will be the cause of our death.

**TheAsterisk!** · 12-11-2012 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by Equilibrium

I sit for the majority of my job. So I guess I'm screwed.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the study in question referred to six hours of more or your daily leisure time, so it didn't include work figures. It also don't recall it addressing the mantra of the statistician (Correlation does not imply causation!) at all and just stopped at noting the correlation. (I read it via a similarly misquoting article- meant to provoke panic in IT professionals, amusingly enough- a few days ago.)

So, basically, it just reiterates something we already knew intuitively: couch potatoes are more likely to be fat and it's not good for them.

If you're still worried anyway, then just fidget and wiggle and act like you're uncomfortable all day long; that should be enough movement to keep the blood flowing until quittin' time.

**Lali.** · 12-12-2012 09:56 AM

What ISN'T bad for us, now-a-days? Y'know what? I'm gonna sit my patootie down for as long as I want. I love sitting, sitting is good.

Jeez that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! I quit.

**animeyay** · 12-12-2012 10:24 AM

Being too inactive is always bad though lol. Sitting in one position for too long strains the muscles and bones on your back, shoulders, and neck, to say the least. Our veins, especially those in our legs and arms, rely partially on skeletal muscle contraction to help return blood to the heart; an active daily routine increases one's circulation and metabolism and increases your overall health.