From the it-ought-to-be-obvious department.
I don't know how obvious that is a priori. If you asked a subsistence laborer what the effects of sitting all day would have on their health you might get a different answer.
Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older
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#13I sit most of the day but not to binge TV-view. Do I need to be concerned?
A little. Sitting is the problem, the TV is just the means.
Just remember, you can start trying to change the habit today even if a very litttle bit at a time. The past is done but now is ready and waiting.
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#14From the it-ought-to-be-obvious department.
Attempting to quantify the obvious is noble work. Haven't you seen how popular those sorts of articles are around here.
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#15As my wife (an ER nurse) says: "Motion is the lotion"... But seriously: Keep moving folks! Immobility is a co-morbidity with so many other illnesses. Find something you love to do that makes you move and keep at it!
I phrase it "Stop moving, start dying."
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#16From the it-ought-to-be-obvious department.
I don't know how obvious that is a priori. If you asked a subsistence laborer what the effects of sitting all day would have on their health you might get a different answer.
Indeed, doing physical labor all day is also quite terrible for you. My godfather was a farmer in rural Mexico and by his 50s his body was in pretty bad shape.
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#17It sounds obvious but certain countries seem to need the hot coffee warning. A UK friend messaged me from Disneyland Florida yesterday with message 'Its unbelievable the amount of people in electric buggies, its almost as if 25% of population have given up on idea of walking'.
WALL-E world?
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#18What about sitting for eight hours straight and then doing a hard workout afterwards? Is that still bad?
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#19What about sitting for eight hours straight and then doing a hard workout afterwards? Is that still bad?
Well it's not great. You should really get up and move around during that 8 hours.
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#20What about sitting for eight hours straight and then doing a hard workout afterwards? Is that still bad?
Yes, numerous studies have shown that workouts don't reverse the negative health consequences of sitting. That being said, such workouts can definitely help avoid (or at least reduce) other issues such as pain, e.g., by strengthening glutes that are weakened by sitting, etc.