Your ass is killing me

[NightWatcher]

Ok, maybe it's really killing you.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34209499/ns/health-fitness/
Your body's big enemy? You’re sitting on it
Most of us spend our days on our behinds — and it’s killing us

You might not want to take the following stat sitting down: According to a poll of nearly 6,300 people by the Institute for Medicine and Public Health, it's likely that you spend a stunning 56 hours a week planted like a geranium — staring at your computer screen, working the steering wheel, or collapsed in a heap in front of your high-def TV. And it turns out women may be more sedentary than men, since they tend to play fewer sports and hold less active jobs.

Even if you think you have an energetic lifestyle, sitting is how most of us spend a good part of our day. And it's killing us — literally — by way of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. All this downtime is so unhealthy that it's given birth to a new area of medical study called inactivity physiology, which explores the effects of our increasingly butt-bound, tech-driven lives, as well as a deadly new epidemic researchers have dubbed "sitting disease."

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That's not all. The less you move, the less blood sugar your body uses; research shows that for every two hours spent on your backside per day, your chance of contracting diabetes goes up by 7 percent. Your risk for heart disease goes up, too, because enzymes that keep blood fats in check are inactive. You're also more prone to depression: With less blood flow, fewer feel-good hormones are circulating to your brain.

[tridim]

1. The solution costs about $14

[jgraz]

2. Wait... I can get a hot chick with a computer for $14???

<Reaches for credit card>

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. LOL! imagine an office space filled with cube rats bouncing on yoga balls

Who knows, it may even boost productivity if people were having some fun while they're tapping away all day at their keyboards. :D

[tridim]

7. I had about 40% of my last office bouncing on yoga balls.

Fun is the key, bouncing and rolling is much more fun than it sounds. It' certainly beats a typical cramped office chair, none of which IMO are ergonomic, even the expensive ones.

[gateley]

4. Excellent suggestion! nt

[tabatha]

5. Do you have a link for that see-through $14 version?

I have one but it is not nearly as nice as that one.

[tridim]

8. I've never seen the clear ones on sale.

Just chose a random google pic.

[progressoid]

9. mocassins?

[tonysam]

6. There is nothing like a pain in the ass, especially those busybodies who are trying to tell

us what to do and what to eat.

I also have a pain in the ass for having fallen down on the ice on the steps to my backyard while trying to retrieve my dog from sub-zero weather. It hurts like hell, but fortunately it isn't my tailbone being affected.