Will sitting too much kill you?

This seems pretty relevant to all poker players and according to the linked NYT article, the answer is yes, sitting too much will kill you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/mag..._r=4&src=me&ref=homepage&

Couple of quotes from the article:

"The men in the study who spent six hours or more per day of their leisure time sitting had an overall death rate that was about 20 percent higher than the men who sat for three hours or less."

"Another study, published last year in the journal Circulation, looked at nearly 9,000 Australians and found that for each additional hour of television a person sat and watched per day, the risk of dying rose by 11 percent."

NO as long as you are not dehydration.. i mean dehydrated

good study, ppl drinking water will die ... fact!

Isn't the risk of dying 100% anyway

yes

One more:

"Sitting, it would seem, is an independent pathology. Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym. It is bad whether you are morbidly obese or marathon-runner thin. “Excessive sitting,” Dr. Levine says, “is a lethal activity.”"

On April 13 2013 01:03 Breeze wrote: Isn't the risk of dying 100% anyway

some have managed to come back for round two

if you smart asses prefer we could say something like "the more time you spend sitting, the more likely you are to die at an age sooner than average" instead

standing is a lot of work, i'll take my chances

It's no surprise that people who live an active lifestyle live longer than people who don't live an active lifestyle right? Watching tv or sitting won't hurt you, but they are indicative of an unhealthy lifestyle.

On April 13 2013 01:31 SleepyHead wrote: It's no surprise that people who live an active lifestyle live longer than people who don't live an active lifestyle right? Watching tv or sitting won't hurt you, but they are indicative of an unhealthy lifestyle.they are indicative of an unhealthy lifestyle.

Yeah that's what you'd think but according to the studies in the article it's not just a correlation. Regarding "watching tv or sitting won't hurt you", I can't say anything about TV but according to the article and it's studies sitting itself will hurt you and that's kind of the major point and why I found this worth posting.

"The study author David Dunstan wanted to analyze whether the people who sat watching television had other unhealthful habits that caused them to die sooner. But after crunching the numbers, he reported that “age, sex, education, smoking, hypertension, waist circumference, body-mass index, glucose tolerance status and leisure-time exercise did not significantly modify the associations between television viewing and all-cause . . . mortality.”"

Sitting gave me hemorrhoids so I quit poker lol

Lots of bus jeepney and taxi drivers here die of colon or rectal disease

wtf how am I supposed to sit less than 6 hours a day? ?

or does that assume that you're also sitting during work?

On April 13 2013 06:01 Liquid`Drone wrote: wtf how am I supposed to sit less than 6 hours a day? ? or does that assume that you're also sitting during work?

all sitting period.

pretty much gg to most of us for poker by itself not including gaming and watching shit on the computer LOL

like
I work manually and don't sit at all during work
I have two dogs and walk them for a good while every day
I do tons of cross country skiing during winter (440 kilometers this season!) and I try to play football during summer.

but I still sit at least 6 hours every day. doesn't matter how social I am, if I go out to or with buddies then I'm still gonna be sitting. and this is the most active I've ever been since childhood and prolly the most active I'm ever gonna be - I'm currently in awesome shape. but I don't get how I'm supposed to reduce sitting to less than 6 hours through the day. like am I just supposed to stand? or does a couch where you're not really sitting work?

cause I mean ok obviously a really sedentary life is bad and obviously spending 14 hours a day sitting is bad for you. but does anyone here NOT sit 6 hours per day?

Irony is that the thing that we need the most to live actually kills us, just at a very slow rate. Fuck you air.

op those quotes make the article look like it's a silly correlation=causation fallacy.

tldr: even if you don't exercise, taking lots of individual movements every day, like walking up and down stairs to get food will dramatically decrease your chances of becoming a fatty.
individual movements can be as simple as tying your shoelaces.

Ok so this article is a warning to any SNE bots that use pee bottles and have food by their desk

nice so staying in bed all day is actually healthy