The Most Dangerous Thing You'll Do All Day..Yahoo Health, Men's Health

[Stuart G]

Men's Health


By Bill Phillips and the Editors of Men's Health
Mar 30, 2011

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/most-dangerous-thing-youll-do-all-day

We stand around a lot here at Men’s Health. In fact, a few of us don’t even have office chairs. Instead, we write, edit, and answer e-mails—a lot of e-mails—while standing in front of our computers. All day long. Why?


It all started last summer, when Assistant Editor Maria Masters came across a shocking study in the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (one of dozens of research journals we comb each month as we put together the magazine). Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks.

That’s right—I said 54 percent!

Masters immediately called the lead researcher at Pennington, a professor named Peter Katzmarzyk. Turns out, this wasn’t the first study to link sitting and heart disease. Similar research actually dates back to 1953, when British researchers found that (sitting) bus drivers were twice as likely to die of heart attacks as (standing) trolley operators.

Here’s the most surprising part: “We see it in people who smoke and people who don’t,” Katzmarzyk told Masters. “We see it in people who are regular exercisers and those who aren’t. Sitting is an independent risk factor.”

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There isn't much more to say. This article identifies a habit of mine that must change...as of today..
I do sit around most of the day..
I'll bookmark this one and really try to be more active..but
It won't be easy
..Stuart

[yodermon]

1. wouldn't hordes of office workers be dying off in droves then?

54% more heart attack deaths for white collar workers.. wouldn't this have been noticed by now?

[Stuart G]

2. I don't think it would have been noticed...

It is a factor that researchers and medical people are not intersted in.
.A little like smoking in the 30s and 40s...everyone did it..so what??not harmfull people thought.

Or the idea that something cheap, simple, available, etc...could be a factor in preventing heart attacks..
Who was going to make money on it?? forget it...
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The human body was designed to be upright, and walking.
We worked in the fields all day, gathered food, hunted, walked etc.

Now we sit in front of the computer and think about the next thing to say to the computer while sitting.
The link shows a guy standing..I never thought about that.

[bertman]

3. DAMN!! I just pushed my chair back and stood up. rec. nt

[Stuart G]

4. Prosfessor Jery Morris...his original study...sitters vs standers...1953

Sitters were twice as likely to die from sudden heart attack, as standers...

Professor Jerry Morris, was the first to discover the clear link between lack of physical activity and heart disease.

In the late 1940s, Morris began a study comparing rates of heart attack among people of different occupations, as heart attack rates were increasing rapidly after the War. He made some striking discoveries – in particular, the statistics for heart attack among the men running London’s buses. Although from similar backgrounds, the drivers of the buses were twice as likely as the conductors to have heart attacks, age for age. The obvious difference between the two groups was simply that the drivers’ occupation was largely sedentary, while the conductors spent much of the day climbing the stairs of the double-decker buses – between 500 and 750 steps a day. Even where the drivers were no fatter than the conductors (and Morris analysed the waistband sizes of the uniforms issued to the men), exercise seemed to be protecting against heart attack.

This was published in the British Medical Journal...Lancet 1953