{"id":51873,"date":"2015-10-01T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_the_price_we_pay_for_sitting_too_much\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:00:40","slug":"wsj_the_price_we_pay_for_sitting_too_much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51873","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research is helping medical experts devise formulas for how long a typical office worker should spend sitting and standing.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have found that sedentary behavior, including sitting for extended periods, increases the risk for developing dozens of chronic conditions, from cancer and diabetes to cardiovascular disease and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Some ergonomics experts warn that too much standing also can have negative effects on health, including a greater risk for varicose veins, back and foot problems, and carotid artery disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key is breaking up your activity throughout the day,\u201d\u009d said Alan Hedge, a professor of ergonomics at Cornell University. \u201cSitting all day and standing all day are both bad for you,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-price-we-pay-for-sitting-too-much-1443462015\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research is helping medical experts devise formulas for how long a typical office worker should spend sitting and standing. Studies have found that sedentary behavior, including sitting for extended periods, increases the risk for developing dozens of chronic conditions,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51873\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,168,104,133,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}