Archive for the ‘Sitting’ Category
Do you want to live to be 100? The Centers for Disease Control reports that Americans currently have an average life expectancy of 77.9 years. This has risen from 49.2 years at the turn of the 20th century. The aging of the Baby Boomers also means that we now have a larger [...]
An article in Business Week on April 29 (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm?chan=magazine+channel_etc) discusses the dangers of chairs and sitting. It’s called “Your Office Chair Is Killing You“, and it states that “sitting is a public health risk.” Some of the article discusses the dangers in terms of obesity. Of course, movement is necessary to the [...]