Sitting is as bad as smoking. Really?

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People spend too much time sitting down but that's while they're at work or school but they can't leave their desks while they're slaving away. People now spend more time at work or school than sleeping, spending time with family members, playing or doing any other activity. I even read about something called "office syndrome " the other day. The symptoms include obesity, digestive problems, depression, anxiety, fatigue, muscle pain, heart disease...

So there you go. It's WORK that is making people sick, fat, miserable, and dying prematurely. But the politicians will never tell you that. They want to blame everything on video games or playing Dungeons and Dragons and nonsense.

When I was a kid in elementary school the teacher would have us all get up and do some stretching a couple of times a day. I used to really enjoy it.

I really hate spending time with someone else, family member or not, just for the sake of wasting that time instead of investing it on something useful or interesting. To me, it's always been the real, unpleasant thing you do because you have to, not because you want to or enjoy it. School and work can actually be pleasant and are things you do for your own self-interest, so I'd really appreciate it if others would mind their bloody business and let me study and work as much as I want to till I drop dead.

Why aren't there massage chairs in offices?

what's worse for people? being an active smoker or a nonsmoker who sits a lot?

The stories and "media" articles that claim this are complete BS.

There is almost nothing--nothing at all--that will destroy one's health as badly as smoking tobacco. I have known numerous people who have died grisly deaths from it and, from CDC statistics, there's no doubt this is true statistically throughout the world. There was a time decades ago that I enjoyed smoking, at least the first few in the day, and even today I find fresh second-hand smoke somewhat alluring, but it's not worth it. I saw too many people "smoke now, pay later."

Of course a sedentary lifestyle is bad for one's health. There are, however, many more obese, sedentary nonsmoker individuals over the age of 85 years, than there are people that age who have smoked for more than 40 years.