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Sit Longer, Die Sooner
mcgrew writes "Bad news for most of us here — The Chicago Tribune is reporting that even if you get plenty of exercize, sitting down all day reduces your lifespan. From the article: 'Even after adjusting for body mass index (BMI) and smoking, the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die.
People who exercise regularly had a lower risk, but still significant, risk of dying. Those who sat a lot and moved less than three and a half hours per day are the most likely to die early: researchers found a 94 percent increased risk for women and 48 percent increase for men, they announced recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology.'"
I think "exersize" is what you call someone who doesn't exercise. :)
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
If I start to add up all the things I do that make me more likely to die it gets depressing fast. In fact, I'm now so depressed all I have the energy to do is sit here and eat ice cream. God damn it.
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die
Wow. There is ANY percentage of people that are not likely to die?
I shall never sit again!
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours
ORLY?
I thought the two groups were equally certain to die...
Are you sure about the 100% chance of dying?
I haven't died.
I might get modded down for this, but I haven't died either, and I suspect others like me are beginning to come out of the closet.
No, it just feels like forever.
A stationary target is much easier to hit by a falling piano, but walk around a bit, and you'll only lose a kidney from the flying wood splinters.
But some of us plan on coming back: http://www.alcor.org/
What's jesus and what do you take it with?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Number_of_humans_who_have_ever_lived
Estimates of "the total number of people who have ever lived" published in the 2000s range approximately from 100 to 115 billion (1 E11).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
The world population is the population of humans on the planet Earth. In 2009, the United Nations estimated the population to reach 7,000,000,000 in 2011;[1] current estimates by the United States Census Bureau put the population at 6,864,700,000.[2]
Math
7/100 or 7/115
it's really only an 93-94% mortality rate so far.. who knows what tomorrow will bring
I'm currently beating the odds......
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Pot calling the kettle black ?
It's pretty obvious that:
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Hey, at least they didn't say exorcise-I'd hate to have to do that on a regular basis.
Immortality, Hmmph!
I won't stand for it!
Why use denial when logic will do:
I have no life -- therefor, I cannot die.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
Although English is not mi mother tongue
You don't say.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
Well, as James Brown said, "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." Also, something about some kind of Sex Machine. I think this creed could be adapted to this era of Aeron chairs and teledildonics somehow.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Other than sitting, standing, walking, and laying down, I can't really think of what else to do. Given 12 hours sleep and 3 hours sitting, that still leaves me with 9 hours of whatever. I can't really imagine why I'd need to stand or walk for more than 4 hours... Maybe I'll just go and lie down some more. That's still ok, right?
I must read it before submiting
I must read it before submiting
I must read it before submiting
I mast read it before submiting.. darn!
the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die
You know... I'm pretty sure everyone is 100% likely to die...
Speak for yourself. My life insurance agent promised me that I will never see a penny of that money.
SWM seeks new sig for a brief fling
It's "submitting".
The biggest sitting problem (for Americans, at least) outside of work is that our cities, our jobs, and even our recreation is not really intended for pedestrians.
I think the biggest problem is that "pedestrian" is a bit like "pederast". I'll rather take the car than be confused with one of those.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
But now it's confirmed.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Let's all just sit here all day. We're gonna die anyway, so we might as well abuse it. Don't feel like living? Just sit here and play NetHack!
Hey, at least they didn't say exorcise-I'd hate to have to do that on a regular basis.
You hate it? How do you think the ghosts feel. You're dead, you got nothing better to do than sit around some old house, looking at pictures of someone else's family, and finally you just say
Screw it! I'm bored as hell, so I'm just going to move that figurine, right there. Haha, that'll mess with 'em.
Oh, they moved it back. Man, I miss my old pony...and being alive. I think the thing I miss most about life is talking to people without them freaking out. They say "oh how I miss uncle Jacob", but all it takes is a little "I miss you too", and suddenly it's all "get a priest this", and "go back to hell that". Why can't I have a cool family that just smokes pot and breaks out the Ouija board. Sure, I can't get a contact buzz, but the pot makes it so much easier to mess with them. I don't even have to move their keys, I just have to wait for them to forget where they left them.
Then some superstitious old perv comes in, starts splashing water everywhere, and suddenly you're flying back to hell. It's not entirely fair.