Negative health effects of sedentary work not undone by exercise
Worth reading only for this comment:
Thank you for this exotic pile of research ordure. You — that is the pea-brained hippogriffs who designed these studies — have managed to finagle reality into some existential nightmare that might make even a dour, gymless rat like Jean Paul-Sartre collapse in despair — even though he was already in despair. Despair squared! Cubed! Mega-Cubed. We’re talkin’ despair. Any decent supermax Prison Guard (surely comparable in moral dignity to the average researcher sited here) could tell you that if you cage a guy for 23 hours a day and then let him out to exercise only to pace on a doily for an hour then Mr. Man (sexist pigs!! where are the comparable women’s studies!!) won’t be superfit. Uh, duh? Of course it ALL depends on length of time “sitting” vs. “working out.” Do they really expect us to parse from these findings that a 23-hour workout following an hour of couch potatoing will not offset the physical effects? We have a technical term to refer to such stacked research: lame. Maybe participants in the studies were forced to watch endless re-runs of “Petticoat Junction” followed by a “workout’ that consisted of bench pressing a case of Almond Joys into their mouth a then a drive in high-speed bumper-to-bumper in Los Angeles traffic for two hours before arriving home only to be flogged with a garden hose by their miserable spouse and given a bowl of steam for dinner followed by a short, brutish sleep on a bed of nails?
