{"id":198681589,"date":"2011-04-19T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198681589"},"modified":"2011-04-19T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:19:49","slug":"sitting-can-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198681589","title":{"rendered":"Sitting Can Kill You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Business Insider by Henry Blodget<br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s official: Sitting all day is bad for you.<br \/>\nIt makes you fat.<br \/>\nIt makes you weak.<br \/>\nIt makes you more likely to keel over dead.<br \/>\nHow do we know?<br \/>\nBecause &quot;inactivity researchers&quot; have finally cracked the code.<br \/>\nSpecifically, they have figured out why some people get fat when they eat too much and other people don&#8217;t get fat, even when they eat the same amount:<br \/>\nThe people who get fat get fat because they sit around all day. The people who don&#8217;t get fat don&#8217;t sit around as much.<br \/>\nImportantly, the difference between the fatties and the non-fatties in the study had nothing to do with exercise. None of the folks in the &quot;inactivity&quot; study were allowed to exercise. The folks who didn&#8217;t get fat didn&#8217;t exercise&#8211;they just didn&#8217;t spend as much time sitting. Instead, they stood. They walked. They took stairs instead of elevators. They fidgeted. Etc.<br \/>\nAnd sitting doesn&#8217;t just make you fat. It makes you sick, too.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Yet so much of our built environment discourages the simple act of walking, from parking right next to the front door of a business and our homes to fire alarms installed on stair well doors to meet fire codes.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~3\/3BPXadzD7Pc\/sitting-can-kill-you-2011-4\">https:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~3\/3BPXadzD7Pc\/sitting-can-kill-you-2011-4<\/a>oldId.20110419131949969<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Business Insider by Henry Blodget Well, it&#8217;s official: Sitting all day is bad for you. It makes you fat. It makes you weak. It makes you more likely to keel over dead. How do we know? Because &quot;inactivity researchers&quot; have finally cracked the code. Specifically, they have figured out why some people get fat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=198681589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sitting Can Kill You&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198681589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198681589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198681589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198681589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198681589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}