Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests
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Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests
| Tue, 03-27-2012 - 7:54am |
How much do you sit each day? How often do you get up and move?
According to recent Health Day News:
" For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of how physically active they are otherwise, researchers say." READ MORE
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OMG! THree years? That's all the time I have left?
Seriously, I know that I need to get up and move around but sometimes, I get so involved in what I'm doing that I forget... That's why I put my ironing board so far from my sewing machine, etc. It's a way to force myself...
Now if I could just come up with a way to force myself when I'm sitting here at this laptop --- OTHER than having to get up to see that it's only another "unknown" caller on the telephone!
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