^"Sitting is the New Smoking"

   Stand Up While You Read This

   Too much sedentary time is dangerous for active exercisers as
   well as couch potatoes.

   AARP Bulletin March 11, 2011

   "Sitting is the new smoking," says Marc T. Hamilton, a
   physiologist at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton
   Rouge, La. "These days we sit more than we sleep