Sitting for extended periods of time is an independent risk factor for poor health and premature death. Even if you are very fit, if you uninterruptedly sit for a great percentage of the time, you’re still at an increased risk of dying prematurely.
Research by the NASA scientist responsible for monitoring the astronauts, shows your body declines rapidly when sitting for long periods.
Simply standing up over 30 times a day is a powerful antidote to long periods of sitting and is more effective than walking.
There are virtually unlimited opportunities for movement throughout the day, from doing housework or gardening, to cooking and even just standing up every 10 minutes.
It’s not how many hours of sitting that’s bad for you; it’s how often you interrupt that sitting that is GOOD for you.
Please read the article, there is a lot more great data in it! And if you are one of the very few who actually IMPLEMENT some of the techniques I share, this will save you 10 seconds of searching, a timer you can run in the background to beep every 10 minutes to remind you to get out of the chair for a second! http://timer.onlineclock.net/ I started using it last night.