How Sitting Too Long Affects The Body

It's only two years. After that, if you're worth anything, you're more likely to be out and about in this profession. I'd say that you're more likely to have a sedentary lifestyle in more traditional corporate jobs than in high finance.

but correlation =/= causation. it is possible (nay highly likely) that people who sit that much are very obese. They did control for exercise during the week (thank god or it would have been a stupid study). I'd like to see a study that controls for both exercise and weight. So show me a person with low bmi/body fat % who works out 3 times a week but then spends the rest of his day sitting.

Hemorrhoids

Thanks for sharing. Sitting all day is our fate unfortunately. I try to walk around office as much as possible to avoid sitting 12h straight.

I'm having a hard time understanding what 48% increased risk in all-cause mortality means... the way I'm interpreting it is that people who sit for 4+ hours are 48% more likely to die from all causes than people who don't?

Sit down for 4 hours and you've reduced your chances at immortality by about half. God that sucks.

You know what is kind of interesting? I read some of this research...and it seems that the actual act of sitting is what really causes bad effects to you health, not just being sedentary. So laying down on a couch is nowhere near as bad as actually sitting upright in your Aeron. It is theorized that it negatively affects blood flow to major organ systems.