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Kuros
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Globutron2
Joined: 21 May 2011
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Yeah, statistically speaking, humans used to live to an average age of 250 until the chair was invented. Now we can barely live past 98.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5bKN6xP8Kk |
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Kuros
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Less active at work, Americans have packed on pounds
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Looking beyond poor eating habits and a couch-potato lifestyle, a group of researchers has found a new culprit in the obesity epidemic: the American workplace.
A sweeping review of shifts in the labor force since 1960 suggests that a sizable portion of the national weight gain can be explained by declining physical activity during the workday. Jobs requiring moderate physical activity, which accounted for 50 percent of the labor market in 1960, have plummeted to just 20 percent.
The remaining 80 percent of jobs, the researchers report, are sedentary or require only light activity. The shift translates to an average decline of about 120 to 140 calories a day in physical activity, closely matching the nation�s steady weight gain over the past five decades, according to the report, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| When I lived in America, I was mildly overweight. In Korea, I'm firmly within a healthy weight range. Moving from a job where I sat at a desk during my entire work period to a job that has me on my feet over half the time almost certainly had a big impact on that. |
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Globutron2
Joined: 21 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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I just find it supremely over dramatic.
YOU WILL DIE IF YOU SIT DOWN!
Try telling Jeanne Calment that - The oldest person to have ever lived, who smoked twice a day, ate a kilogram of chocolate a week, and barely did anything, with no job and everything basically paid for her. Not sporty or interested in maintaining health. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Move or die. At least in terms of long term health. That ain't rocket science. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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My school is more of a trend-setter than I thought. The school 'released' a teacher mid-contract. One of the prime reasons given was that she sat down while teaching. I thought they were being jerks about it. However, they were just looking out for her health.
On the other hand, Hemingway stood up to type and look where that got him. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Hemingway stood up to type and look where that got him. |
Alcoholism and suicide at age 61? With a Mojito on hand, he had to be sitting not standing when pulling the trigger of the twelve-gauge Boss shotgun that was in his mouth. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Hemingway stood up to type and look where that got him. |
Alcoholism and suicide at age 61? With a Mojito on hand, he had to be sitting not standing when pulling the trigger of the twelve-gauge Boss shotgun that was in his mouth. |
I didn't say he was standing when he shot himself. I said he was standing when he was working. My point stands: Standing while working does not necessarily lead to a longer life.
I suppose your argument is that if he had stood up he couldn't have shot himself, thereby supporting the OP.
My counter is that people who get hanged are almost always standing up. Very few people get hanged while sitting in a chair. |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| In one of my animation classes my first year of Uni, our teacher was actually very thorough about seat safety, as he explained the immense back and wrist problems animators and those working at computers suffer later on in life. That being said, he wasn't nearly as dramatic as this site. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| What relevance at all was bringing Hemingway up? He stood up when he typed shows what? He died relatively early of suicide. Are you saying trying to be healthy is useless because something else can be fatal? Really, the Hemingway reference is dense. If it's deep, please illuminate. |
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TSE
Joined: 24 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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It's true, before the chair was invented humans did not know how to sit down, only lying down and standing exactly upright. I bet if I stood upright while I slept, ate, took a deuce, took a bath, and rode a roller coaster, I would live to be at least 160 years old.
Be careful when bowing too low, it's dangerously close to being in a sitting position, only upright. I'm glad we can finally put the menace of chairs, sofas, stools, rocks, cliffs, benches and seats to rest!! |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| TSE wrote: |
It's true, before the chair was invented humans did not know how to sit down, only lying down and standing exactly upright. I bet if I stood upright while I slept, ate, took a deuce, took a bath, and rode a roller coaster, I would live to be at least 160 years old.
Be careful when bowing too low, it's dangerously close to being in a sitting position, only upright. I'm glad we can finally put the menace of chairs, sofas, stools, rocks, cliffs, benches and seats to rest!! |
Now if you could only try this post again, but funny this time. |
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IMF crisis
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| TSE wrote: |
It's true, before the chair was invented humans did not know how to sit down, only lying down and standing exactly upright. I bet if I stood upright while I slept, ate, took a deuce, took a bath, and rode a roller coaster, I would live to be at least 160 years old.
Be careful when bowing too low, it's dangerously close to being in a sitting position, only upright. I'm glad we can finally put the menace of chairs, sofas, stools, rocks, cliffs, benches and seats to rest!! |
Stand-up comedy? |
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TSE
Joined: 24 May 2011
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