April 25, 2012
By Sonia Paul
The study followed more than 200,000 Australian adults aged 45 and older from 2006 to 2010. It found that those who reported sitting for at least 11 hours a day had a 40% higher risk of dying within the next three years than people who sat for less than four hours a day. It's part of the Sax Institute's ongoing 45 and Up study, the largest study on healthy aging ever undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere.
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March 6, 2012
By Hidde P. van der Ploeg, PhD; Tien Chey, MAppStats; Rosemary J. Korda, PhD; Emily Banks, MBBS, PhD; Adrian Bauman, MBBS, PhD
Prolonged sitting is a risk factor for all-cause mortality, independent of physical activity. Public health programs should focus on reducing sitting time in addition to increasing physical activity levels.
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February 1, 2012
By Peter Budnick and Keith Osborne
Keith Osborne retired from the US Army due in part to a back injury he received in the line of duty. He had no formal ergonomics training at the time, but as is often the case, his back injury forced a new perspective that led him to not only discover its benefits, but to build an award winning ergonomics process that has since benefited many of his coworkers, become a Honeywell best practice, helped earn OSHA VPP Star status, and earned him a President's Award for HSE.
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If you're reading this article sitting down-the position we all hold more than any other, for an average of 8.9 hours a day-stop and take stock of how your body feels. Is there an ache in your lower back? A light numbness in your rear and lower thigh? Are you feeling a little down?
These symptoms are all normal, and they're not good. They may well be caused by doing precisely what you're doing-sitting.