Besides the fact that it's just plain boring, there's now some pretty concrete evidence saying that sitting around on your tuckus all day long has some serious health consequences. No, I mean really serious:
A shorter life. Recent research by the American Cancer Society found that women who sit for more than six hours a day have a 37 percent greater chance of dying than women who sit for less than three. Apparently, all that inactivity suppresses hormones that keep heart disease at bay. Even scarier? Women who sat a lot and who didn't exercise at all had a really ridiculously high sooner-than-later mortality rate: 94 percent.
So what's the take-home message? Get up, get out, get moving. We're all at the mercy of the computer, grueling work schedules, and study sessions sometimes. But this research is a good kick-in-the-butt reminder that we've all got to get off our, um, butts. Every day. At least a little.
How do you get moving on those days that you're super-sedentary?
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