Too much sitting linked to shortened lives

[RealNeil]

I guess I'm a dead man rolling. Been stuck in a wheelchair for many years.

 

[Disparia]

It further warns that a daily session at the gym won’t undo the damage because any increase in fitness from an hour’s exercise is overridden by several hours of sitting.

Ouch, this is me. Work and play while sitting for many hours every day, but like to walk or jog 2.5 miles (around the block distance) most days of the week. I just hope my restless leg syndrome is giving some movement benefit. That and coffee, I drink so much that I piss like every hour so I am not stationary for more time than that.

 

[64K]

Ouch, this is me. Work and play while sitting for many hours every day, but like to walk or jog 2.5 miles (around the block distance) most days of the week. I just hope my restless leg syndrome is giving some movement benefit. That and coffee, I drink so much that I piss like every hour so I am not stationary for more time than that.

I was like that with coffee. I guess I drank around 20 cups a day if you count a cup as 8 ozs. I tried cutting down but always worked my way back up so I had to give it up entirely. A desk job and coffee just go hand in hand somehow. My doctor said it was a diuretic but wouldn't dehydrate me very much but I felt like it did.

You're one up on me for jogging. I don't get any exercise at all unless you count sex.

 

[SK-1]

I guess I'm a dead man rolling. Been stuck in a wheelchair for many years.

Do you get any kind of workout with your upper body?

 

[RealNeil]

Not enough lately. I have a Parabody 2500 weight machine out side on the back porch, but temps have been hovering around zero lately.
It's 50 degrees Fahrenheit outside today and it feels like a heatwave!

 

[BazookaJoe]

Stress Induced Cardiac Fatigue caused by believing every other study linking practically anything to death found to reduce life expectancy by shocking percentage! No really You should be very worried about this!

 

[Toothless]

If i'm going to die then I'm going to die happily sitting.

 

[64K]

Stress Induced Cardiac Fatigue caused by believing every other study linking practically anything to death found to reduce life expectancy by shocking percentage! No really You should be very worried about this!

Something is going to take each of us out one way or another. It's been decades since I read this paper but a leading statistician posed the question; "How Long Could You Live If You Could Live Forever?". That title was a bit misleading but basically he examined statistically how long a person could live if geneticists removed all chances of disease and natural causes of death and stopped the aging/degeneration process entirely. He arrived at the conclusion that the average person could live around 600 years before some accident would take them out.

 

[BiggieShady]

When I'm dead I hope someone resurrect the thread I posted in.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

When I'm dead I hope someone resurrect the thread I posted in.

ok....just let me know when.


I cant lie down or apply pressure to my back or back of my skull,
crunch for science guys

Spoiler

 

[natr0n]

I have painful sciatica on my right leg. If I don't sit for a while it feels like I'm dying.

 

[Schmuckley]

I don't doubt this.

 

[Caring1]

Well, in extreme cases, too much sitting in a chair can lead to a fairly-sudden-death:
Deep vein thrombosis --> Pulmonary Embolism --> Bye bye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_embolism

I recall hearing one of those 'weird news factoid' stories a while ago where a hardcore gamer died in this way, or something similar.

The moral of the story is to do what your mother told/tells you and "go outside and get some fresh air" occasionally

I remember similar stories about a gamer that hadn't slept for days and only had energy drinks to keep him going, pretty sure it was the caffeine overdose that lead to a heart attack or something.

 

[Caring1]

Pretty sure I'm not going to be running around or lifting weights any time soon trying to prolong my life, I suffer from heart failure and a test last week says it's operating at 33% capacity, couple that with my last lung test that said they were working at 25% capacity, I should be dead.
Sitting down is what I do.

 

[R-T-B]

I should be dead too, but only because I'm a horrible electrician that had a brief run in with a 240v 30 amp line.

Oh, and one time when I got out of my chair to sign for a package, I got disoriented, hit a wall and broke my arm into three bone fragments.

After I pulled those two, I think my friend summed it up best:

"Ray, the only reason you're still alive is because you spend so much time in that damn chair. Every time you get out of it, it means you have a horrible idea and intend to do it whether or not it may kill you."

And you know what? He's right. I think I'm staying in my chair today.

 

[Mussels]

this has fast become the "Chair sitters clubhouse"

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Time to get my ass moving...

I think this has to do more with high stress on those who died.

Yeah, stress -> high blood pressure -> cardiovascular problems. If you sit a lot but your blood pressure is good because you're as cool as a cucumber, I doubt cardiovascular problems rise.

 

[Caring1]

If ya have to sit, ya might as well be comfortable

 

[DinaAngel]

I remember similar stories about a gamer that hadn't slept for days and only had energy drinks to keep him going, pretty sure it was the caffeine overdose that lead to a heart attack or something.

Iv had many caffeine overdoses. Theyr not nice it's worse than pms. I'm very sensitive to caffeine. Sleeping only works to make it go away. Ironically caffeine doesn't effect me how it should. I get sleepy from it due to the stress it cause to my body

 

[Vayra86]

Too much of anything shortens your life anyway. So yeah. Great research

Just do too much of everything to restore the balance. That's how I roll

 

[DinaAngel]

Too much of anything shortens your life anyway. So yeah. Great research

Just do too much of everything to restore the balance. That's how I roll

Is there a limit on how much fiber one can eat before ud die from the fiber?

 

[Steve-007UK]

I'll stay sitting as i don't want to live forever

 

[Caring1]

Is there a limit on how much fiber one can eat before ud die from the fiber?

I had a budgie die from stuffing itself with the paper from the bottom of it's cage, it's tummy literally burst.

 

[DinaAngel]

I had a budgie die from stuffing itself with the paper from the bottom of it's cage, it's tummy literally burst.

why it eat the paper? Also I meant not by tummy tearing

 

[Caring1]

why it eat the paper? Also I meant not by tummy tearing

I think it was nesting, and tearing up paper is something it did, but it must have started eating it too.