Sitting Deemed Dangerous for Your Health: What's Next?
January 20, 2010.
I'm guessing there are a lot of occupations that are dangerous -- professional sports, vocations involving heavy machinery, toxic chemicals, grueling labor conditions, precarious heights. I know there are some jobs I simply could never do -- repairing bridges, laying asphalt, wrestling ferocious ******* to the ground .. and there's probably a few others.
But I always thought that my job as a writer, which involves sitting in front of a computer all day, was a pretty good gig when compared to so many other people -- the folks picking crops in pesticide dusted fields with little water and poor sanitation probably about 100 or so miles from my home, for starters.
Sure, I get some neck and back pain, but not to worry right? Well, apparently not. Now the AP is reporting about a new study that concludes that sitting, yep, just sitting, is deadly....
