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.'"

Comments

Another brick in the wall...

[SOdhner]

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.

Re:Another brick in the wall...

[Anonymous Coward]

What you need is an excuse to go outside and stroll around at regular intervals. Like smoking.

Re:Another brick in the wall...

[CharlyFoxtrot]

What you need is an excuse to go outside and stroll around at regular intervals. Like smoking.

The always relevant IT Crowd: "You cannot smoke here, they are moving us to a new smoking area."

Re:Another brick in the wall...

[derGoldstein]

I mean, Aging is mostly caused by breathing Oxygen!

Definitely. If you stop breathing for long enough, you'll stop aging.

To die? But not sooner?

[dissy]

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!

More likely to die?

[e065c8515d206cb0e190]

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...

Re:Huh?

[mozumder]

Are you sure about the 100% chance of dying?

I haven't died.

Re:"Exersize"?

[Anachragnome]

"I think "exersize" is what you call someone who doesn't exercise. :)"

SuperSize...a minor savings that induces you to eat more.

GiantSize...Fuck the cost, I'm hungry.

ExerSize...So big, lifting it burns calories.

Re:Sitting leading cause of death in the world!

[Nadaka]

No, it just feels like forever.

Duh!

[martin-boundary]

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.

Re:And in other news...

[X_DARK_X]

What's jesus and what do you take it with?

Hmm.. stats don't lie

[way2trivial]

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......

Re:"Exersize"?

[amicusNYCL]

I was searching the comments to see if someone has already commented on exercizzzze... LOL

Thanks for the update, I was just wondering what you were doing.

Re:Don't sit down = Immortality

[HTH NE1]

It's pretty obvious that:

1. the more time you spend sitting, the more likely you are to die sitting,
2. the more time you spend standing, the more likely you are to die standing,
3. the more time you spend lying down, the more likely you are to die lying down, and
4. the more time you spend switching between these, the more likely you are to die on the set of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Re:Don't sit down = Immortality

[mkiwi]

Hey, at least they didn't say exorcise-I'd hate to have to do that on a regular basis.

Re:Don't sit down = Immortality

[bareman]

Immortality, Hmmph!

I won't stand for it!

Re:Don't sit down = Immortality

[derGoldstein]

Why use denial when logic will do:
I have no life -- therefor, I cannot die.

Re:Don't sit down = Immortality

[dangitman]

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.

Re:Don't sit down = Immortality

[bhiestand]

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.

I knew you were killing me slashdot!

[w0mprat]

But now it's confirmed.