The Los Angeles Times recently interviewed Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and inventor of the treadmill desk. Levine has been studying the adverse effects of our increasingly sedentary lifestyles for years and has summed up his findings in two sentences.
“Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV and is more treacherous than parachuting. We are sitting ourselves to death.”
Levine is credited with coining that mantra — “sitting is the new smoking” — but he’s not the only one who believes it.
Do you have pain?
Saw a great article on how to reduce problems associated with too much sitting: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/297987.php