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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 VygmraMGVl »

ukulele wrote: post #14
javagram wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Blood flows in veins due to contractions of surrounding muscle. When you're sitting, your lower body is largely relaxed, which causes blood to pool in your lower body. It's a serious (acute) issue in people who are bedridden for long periods of time. I suppose the article is suggesting there's a downside to chronic, low grade exposure as well.

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Post by syntaxing »

I recently bought a Mi band 3 and a convertible stand up desk at work. There is an idle feature where it alerts you when you do not have enough steps with the hour. It has done wonders for me in terms of changing my sitting habits.

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plg wrote: post #19

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 saagarjha »

plg wrote: post #19

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

I know almost nothing about medicine, but my guess is that the issue is that staying in one place all day is the issue, not whether you’re sitting or standing.

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Post by saagarjha »

Groxx wrote: post #20
rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you’re fine with waiting a couple days for the gazelle to tire out before you can catch up to it, sure. And that’s if you know the signs to follow where the gazelle is.
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