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Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by rm_-rf_slash »

krackers wrote: post #7
mamon wrote: post #6

>> Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators Forgive my ignorance, but are there any predators that we actually can outrun? Pretty much every four-legged mammal is faster, except maybe elephants.

I thought it wasn't in speed that humans excel but rather endurance. That is, we wouldn't be able to escape a lion chasing us but we can hunt down deer/etc. until they collapse from exhaustion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Bingo. Over a short distance a tiger or cheetah would maul a human, but over a longer distance a prey species like a gazelle would tire out and eventually a human would be able to catch up with it.

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Post by javagram »

ukulele wrote: post #3

> Staying in a seated position for too long allows gravity to pull more blood down into the pelvis I could concede that more blood might end up in the pelvis, but surely this is not the reason?

Gravity pulls blood down, your circulatory system works to more evenly distribute the blood but is impaired when sitting.

The same phenomenon is observed when sitting on an airplane for a long time resulting in slightly enlarged feet due to blood distribution.

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Post by ukulele »

coldtea wrote: post #4
ukulele wrote: post #3

> Staying in a seated position for too long allows gravity to pull more blood down into the pelvis I could concede that more blood might end up in the pelvis, but surely this is not the reason?

Why "surely"?

Because the torso is upright either way, and gravity doesn't care if you're sitting or standing

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Post by ukulele »

javagram wrote: post #12
ukulele wrote: post #3

> Staying in a seated position for too long allows gravity to pull more blood down into the pelvis I could concede that more blood might end up in the pelvis, but surely this is not the reason?

Gravity pulls blood down, your circulatory system works to more evenly distribute the blood but is impaired when sitting. The same phenomenon is observed when sitting on an airplane for a long time resulting in slightly enlarged feet due to blood distribution.

So then wouldn't the mechanism be that less blood is able to flow upward due to pressure on the skin?

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Post by fox404 »

rexpop wrote: post #9
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #8

This article seemed only to list bad things, which seemed to be just about everything you could conceive of doing, without listing any solutions...

That's fine. When problem solving, it's important to lay out the situation clearly before delving into solutions that may only mitigate part of the problem.

When attempting to be your average, typical useless human being, it's important to make a list of complaints and post them on the internet without providing any meaningful solution to them. Better yet, end your complaint with some kind of half baked reasoning about why society owes you, or your social class, more money.

Thankfully, if you read the article, it's literally a series of solutions - unlike what the parent comment you're faithfully responding to claims.

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Post by _lbaq »

mamon wrote: post #6

>> Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators Forgive my ignorance, but are there any predators that we actually can outrun? Pretty much every four-legged mammal is faster, except maybe elephants.

Avarage human cant outrun anything it seems: http://www.speedofanimals.com/

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Post by plg »

talk to any nurse, surgeon, janitor, etc, and they will tell you that working on your feet all day is horrible for your health

working on your butt all day is also horrible for your health

it’s as if ... some middle-ground moderation-like situation might be optimal ... my god who would have guessed

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Post by Groxx »

rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #11
krackers wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it wasn't in speed that humans excel but rather endurance. That is, we wouldn't be able to escape a lion chasing us but we can hunt down deer/etc. until they collapse from exhaustion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Bingo. Over a short distance a tiger or cheetah would maul a human, but over a longer distance a prey species like a gazelle would tire out and eventually a human would be able to catch up with it.

So since we evolved to chase our prey rather than run from hunters, maybe we should program by putting our computer on a gazelle, and we have to catch it in order to write code for the [time period]?

It'd certainly lead to more thinking before writing, maybe the tradeoff would be worth it.

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