The danger of sitting

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Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

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What you're doing,

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right now, at this very moment,

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is killing you.

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More than cars or the Internet

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or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

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the technology you're using the most almost every day

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is this, your tush.

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Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

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which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

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Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

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we don't even question how much we're doing it,

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and because everyone else is doing it,

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it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay.

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In that way, sitting has become

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the smoking of our generation.

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Of course there's health consequences to this,

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scary ones, besides the waist.

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Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

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are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity],