“You may have heard that “sitting is killing us” and some facts about how sitting for long periods of time strains the lower back, decreases muscle tone, increases body fat, and increases chance of cancer or death.

While this may be true for sitting still for 6-12 hours of the day, these scary outcomes can be minimized through movement. In fact, this man studied hunter-gatherers and found that they also spent about 10 hours a day sitting, which is around “normal” time for most blue-collar workers. Nevertheless, they are different because those 10 hours are not all done at a time- among other things, they are frequently interrupted.”

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