I Hope You're Not Sitting Down

“A doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., calls it the ‘sitting disease,’ likening the ill effects of inactivity that doctors are still discovering to the discovery of the side effects of smoking.”
 — Okay, everybody up, right now. Let’s all take a brief stroll, for our health. I myself am going to run downstairs and have a cigarette, but, really, anything is better for you than sitting, which will kill you dead. DEAD. Also, have you ever tried working at a standing desk? Doesn’t it make you feel super-pretentious? Like, who am I, Arturo Toscanini? It just doesn’t do it for me.

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