Sitting disease

Last month's Bicycling Magazine had a rather alarming article about something dubbed 'sitting disease." Basically your odds of developing a variety of health conditions, such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, increase by a huge percent if you spend 8 hours a day or more sitting down. As I am one of the millions of Americans working at a computer all day, I took the article to heart. The article recommends standing up and walking around at least once an hour to prevent your body from going into resting metabolism, and outlines several exercises aimed at strengthening areas that are generally weakened by sitting for long periods. Check out the article in full here.