Ironically, I am writing this while serving jury duty. With drive time, I will sit for 8 hours straight. This is not my norm!
However, 86% of Americans do sit all day at work. In fact, the average American spends 21 hours a day sedentary and 13hours sitting.
You may be asking, “so what?”
The American Journal of Epidemiology found a link between physical inactivity(ie sitting at a desk for hours) and cardiovascular disease mortality. Charles Matthes of the National Cancer Institute went so far to find a direct correlation between the amount of time spent in “sedentary behaviors” and mortality in U.S. Adults.
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