What you're doing, right now, at this very moment, is killing you.
More than cars or the Internet or even that little mobile device we keep talking about, the technology you're using the most almost every day is this, your tush.
Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.
Sitting is so incredibly prevalent, we don't even question how much we're doing it, and because everyone else is doing it, it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay.
In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.
Of course there's health consequences to this, scary ones, besides the waist.
Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical in activity,
Ten percent in fact, on both of those.
Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of.
Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.
