SITTING IS THE NEW SMOKING – AND IT’S KILLING US!

I know they keep saying over and over that SITTING IS THE NEW SMOKING. I had someone the other day ask me, “How bad is sitting – REALLY! My dad use to farm and sat on a tractor all day long – and he lived a long and pretty healthy life”.

My response was that my dad did the same thing.  But what we fail to realize is how much “movement” they were getting just sitting on the tractor, getting up and down off the tractor, and all the other movement and activity they were getting in their 16-18 hr days….farming was just “sitting in a lounge chair sipping ice tea”!

The conversation did get me thinking – how bad is sitting REALLY.  As I was looking for info – found this infographic; a very compelling infographic from Visually (Link is below). Thought WOW – this kind of hit the nail on the head – so wanted to share it with you.