How Prolonged Sitting is Bad for One's Health

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I realised when I used to have a deskbound job, my health was in a bad shape and prone to falling sick often. Ever since I embraced a lesser prolonged sitting approach together with sensible diet/nutrition and moderate exercise, I managed to lose some body mass, felt fresher and lesser stiff shoulders.

Not going to talk too much about prolonged sitting as Dr Kelly Starrett's Deskbound book (Amazon link at http://a.co/gGRUHpz ) does a great job in explaining the topic of prolonged sitting and also recommend corrective exercises to help one overcome the negative effects of prolonged sitting.

Here is a LifeHacker link at http://lifehacker.com/5879536/how-sitting-all-day-is-damaging-your-body-and-how-you-can-counteract-it talking about how one can take progressive actions towards lesser prolonged sitting. This is one infographic for reference to those who prefer to see it visually  (Source at http://lifehacker.com/5800720/the-sitting-is-killing-you-infographic-illustrates-the-stress-of-prolonged-sitting-importance-of-getting-up ):

There is even a Coursera 3 week program which you can learn more to sit less and be active at https://www.coursera.org/learn/get-active