 {"id":422,"date":"2012-10-01T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/10\/01\/exercise-or-not-sitting-at-a-desk-all-day-is-bad-for-you\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:46:29","slug":"exercise-or-not-sitting-at-a-desk-all-day-is-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/10\/01\/exercise-or-not-sitting-at-a-desk-all-day-is-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Exercise or Not, Sitting at a Desk All Day is Bad for You&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if you go running every morning, or you&#8217;re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting &#8211; in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home &#8211; you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of <span>whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you<\/span>.&#8221;\u00a0<span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5482856\/exercise-or-not-sitting-at-a-desk-all-day-is-bad-for-you\">http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5482856\/exercise-or-not-sitting-at-a-desk-all-day-is-bad-for-you<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TLzmUg3MdqI\/AAAAAAAABO0\/_ZOtf2zGHBg\/s1600\/Screen+shot+2010-10-18+at+8.28.29+PM.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TLzmUg3MdqI\/AAAAAAAABO0\/_ZOtf2zGHBg\/s400\/Screen+shot+2010-10-18+at+8.28.29+PM.png\" width=\"358\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>$20 Cintiq Solution (standing allows an ecstatic jig once in a while too)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TO8BOp-GTBI\/AAAAAAAABQc\/BPwuFC0-1wE\/s1600\/Screen+shot+2010-11-25+at+7.33.56+PM.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TO8BOp-GTBI\/AAAAAAAABQc\/BPwuFC0-1wE\/s320\/Screen+shot+2010-11-25+at+7.33.56+PM.png\" width=\"256\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span>Update: slip a manual treadmill beneath the stand (such as this $120 version);\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>throw away its vertical supports&#8230;set it on a lower wooded frame and\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>you&#8217;re <i>walking while drawing!! \u00a0<\/i>The best ever!!).\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Update: an $800 electric powered seated\/standing adjustable desk&#8230;for which I cannot envision spending $800, ever.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekdesk.com\/\">http:\/\/www.geekdesk.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Update: &#8220;Inactivity boosts cancer risk, research finds,&#8221; Washington Post: &#8220;\u2026among post-menopausal women, taking frequent breaks from sitting was associated with smaller waist circumference and lower risk of some cancers. Even short periods of light activity &#8212; frequently standing up and walking for as little as a minute at time &#8212; reduced risk for such biomarkers as large waist circumference, elevated triglyceride levels and increased insulin resistance, which are linked to heightened cardiovascular disease but might also boost cancer risk.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-checkup\/post\/inactivity-boosts-cancer-risk-research-finds\/2010\/12\/20\/gIQArRA5iM_blog.html?hpid=z4\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-checkup\/post\/inactivity-boosts-cancer-risk-research-finds\/2010\/12\/20\/gIQArRA5iM_blog.html?hpid=z4<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Stand Up While You Read This!&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/23\/stand-up-while-you-read-this\/\">http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/23\/stand-up-while-you-read-this\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3w5u-6U8zbg\/T5CBC1yFjBI\/AAAAAAAACFQ\/393Q0-jDcOc\/s1600\/sitting-is-killing-you-A.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3w5u-6U8zbg\/T5CBC1yFjBI\/AAAAAAAACFQ\/393Q0-jDcOc\/s1600\/sitting-is-killing-you-A.jpg\"><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zk-LgUceWbM\/T5CBG8RWPaI\/AAAAAAAACFY\/UcRwxXIdWqw\/s1600\/sitting-is-killing-you-B.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zk-LgUceWbM\/T5CBG8RWPaI\/AAAAAAAACFY\/UcRwxXIdWqw\/s1600\/sitting-is-killing-you-B.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if you go running every morning, or you&#8217;re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting &#8211; in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home &#8211; you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-art","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}