We stand around a lot here at Men?s Health. In fact, a few of us don?t even have office chairs. Instead, we write, edit, and answer e-mails?a lot of e-mails?while standing in front of our computers. All day long. Why?
It all started last summer, when Assistant Editor Maria Masters came across a shocking study in the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (one of dozens of research journals we comb each month as we put together the magazine). Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks.
That?s right?I said 54 percent!
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