Why is there nothing about what people were doing with their brains in either state? Is this just correlation? The definition of "sedentary behavior" was even noted as vague in the study. Why are people drawing such strong conclusions? I fucking hate journalism.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
52 points (94.8% liked)
Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related
2986 readers
106 users here now
Health: physical and mental, individual and public.
Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.
See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.
Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.
Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.
Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.
Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
so true. any real journalist would've scrutinized this study, but now all journalists need for an article is a 9 year old tweet from a guy with 4 followers
I got curious about what would be the healthy amount of siting on a day and ended up finding this answer on Quora:
Due to my work, I’ve spoken with many physiotherapists about this. Their replies have always been that it’s neither about sitting nor standing - it’s really about incorporating more activity into your day.
One physiotherapist put it succinctly “the best posture you can have is always the next one!”
That said, a more direct reply to your question would be this: you should be striving to maintain a ratio of 50:50. Meaning half of your time should be spend sitting and half standing, at intervals, and interspersed with activity (eg. walking in between).
I’ll suggest doing this in intervals of sitting for no more than 40 mins each time, take a 5 min break to stretch and walk around, then standing for 20 mins.
Source: https://www.quora.com/How-much-hours-should-we-sit-a-day
In my opinion, this combination of sitting, stretching, walking and standing looks almost impossible with the way our routines currently work in society.
Exactly. And the more "essential" the worker, the less flexibility they have to do anything other than exactly what they're told for the entire shift.
Let me know when you guys figure out how to code and solve math with pencil and paper while walking.
ps: no, vibe coding is not an option.
This is what my boss says, we shouldn't stop mining to sit because its unhealthy