Are You Sitting Too Much?

Is sitting too much killing you?
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Sitting is lethal:

Life Expectancy

Heart Disease Risk

Cancer

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EXTRA - New studies on telomere length

[Forssa]

Study shows that 100% of people who died had sat at some time in their lives.

[justinlu]

So, here's some food for thought.

My classes are 90 minutes each, and I have 4 classes a day. Alongside meals, homework and clubs, I will sit much more than the allotted 6 hours. While I do get an hour of exercise from tennis class two to three times a week, it doesn't counteract the sitting I am forced to do for the majority of my day.

Thus, I conclude school is killing me.

[khaliltran]

I'm definitely showing this to my teachers and principal

[Free-Shaman]

So basically school could be a health risk?

[juzrhyme]

I started to stand when i watched  this video

[amyisaway]

School: You kids are all fat and lazy!!
School: (makes kids sit down for 6+ hours a day)

[Zenress]

A Tip guys: Drink alot of water or whatever you guys drink, because then you need to go pee alot causing you to get up and walk to the toilet(if you have a toilet).

[toiletpaper]

*stands up during lesson*
Teacher: Nina, sit down in your seat!
*sits down* *30 seconds of silence*
*stands up again*
Teacher: Nina, what did I tell you, sit down!
*shows this video*
Teacher: class stand up. Now.

[Maya]

Us students needs to sit down, guess school is killing us

[mapu]

Nice. Government forces kids to sit for 6+ hours a day, everyday, for 9+years.
Meh.

[domadordepollosmm]

So what do we do? We stand up in the middle of a class or in the middle of the office and go away?

[edhozell]

I actually watching this standing up in the middle of the video...

[goodman]

Wow, I gusse it's a good thing I just sit all day, cause I'm already underweight as it is. Apparently if I was active I'd be dead by now. Thank you chair, you've saved me.

[laurenivry]

Not sitting for over 3 hours a day in exchange for 2 extra years when I'm older (when sitting will be mostly essential anyway)... "Sod that!" she exclaims, reclining back into the comfy sofa. 

[strenght]

This video is not accurate. Who doesn't sit for 6 hours a day? The negative effects are exaggerated in this video.

[jakebledsoe]

this video makes me want to go for a jog...

[Kelsmith]

This is the first video where I am calling bullshit. You say that the body starts irreversibly deteriorating as soon as you start sitting, and no amount of working out can counteract it. I want to see a reference on that.

The idea that calorie burn rate drops to one calorie per minute while sitting is complete BS. Your BMR would have to be way low for this to take place. The average persons BMR is closer to 1.5 calories per minute even if you were to sleep for 24 hours straight.

Does your recommendation of sitting for no longer than 3 hours per day take sleeping into consideration? Remember how humans have to lie unconscious for at least 8 hours per day? Sounds like all that sleeping is unhealthy right there.

I'm having a hard time believing much of this video is true. There has definitely been some fact stretching going on here in order to attract more views.

[vladutcornel]

Is that why smokers are usually not as fat? Because they get up regularly (for a smoke)?

[theawesomevlogchannel]

People told me that exercise is important but no one told me that with or without exercise, sitting too much is bad for you. I'm so glad I have you and Greg to share this science with me and btw I watched this video years ago, I'm only commenting now

[MadisonI]

Well this is NOT good news for an online school student that's for sure