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[huckleberryjam]

There was an article in yesterday's Times about how sitting is bad for you. People who sat for seven hours at a time (how do you even DO that?) messed up their blood-sugar and insulin levels. People who got up every twenty minutes to walk for a couple minutes tested at better levels. I tend to hop up and move around the house a lot when I'm working on the computer, especially when I'm writing stories. I used to curse my short attention span, but I guess I can start celebrating my inability to write more than a paragraph at a time without getting up and walking around. (because, you know, those chicks have to be checked on every 15 minutes...)
This has saved a few meals, though: only when I lose my concentration and get up to wander into the kitchen do I remember I left a pot on the stove that is now boiling madly.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/sunday-review/stand-up-for-fitness.html


(Sitting and watching TV is even worse. Apparently after factoring out everything else researchers found that by not watching TV as adults people could extend their lives for up to a year and a half.)