Sitting too much is one of the serious health threats that are changing the human form into a grotesque, monster-like shape.

The modern workplace encourages stillness, and temporary stillness gets people closer to permanent stillness.

Daily Mail:

One in four Britons sit still at their desk for so long each day that they are raising their risk of an early death, researchers have warned.

Office staff sat for the longest periods – an average of eight hours a day – followed by people in the finance industry, who sat still for an average of seven hours and 35 minutes each day.

The most active workers were in healthcare, who spent six and a half hours sitting each day on average – but only just over a third managed to achieve NHS-recommended levels of exercise. Their guidelines say that adults should aim to be physically active every day and do 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week – around 20 minutes a day.

Studies have found sitting at a desk for long periods of time raises the risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. And even gym-goers are not exempt, as this remains true if people exercise before or after work.

The implications of not being able to offset the damage that sitting does are pretty big.

At the very least, it should mean that sitting so much should be considered a public health crisis and that actions should be taken to use the power of the government to reduce the things that force people to sit, like workplaces without standing desks.

Earlier this year, researchers discovered 70,000 deaths a year in the UK were linked to a lack of activity, with illness caused by inactive behaviour costing the NHS around £700million a year. The latest research, carried out by wellbeing company Westfield Health, found the average worker in the UK sits still for seven hours and two minutes every day.

Overall, 26 per cent of employees sat still for at least nine hours a day – a level of sedentary behaviour which has been linked to raising the risk of early death by as much as 250 per cent. And 30 per cent of unemployed people admitted to sitting down for at least nine hours a day.

Although 60 per cent of the 2,000 people surveyed for Westfield’s Wellbeing Index report knew inactivity was bad for their health, only 12 per cent took action to reduce the time they spent sitting down.

If governments in Western countries weren’t occupied by hostile creatures determined to bring misery to the world, the common sense thing for them to do would be to take into account people’s lack of action towards addressing this public health crisis and devise a way to impose a more active and healthy lifestyle.

But then again, if we weren’t ruled by traitors and enemies, we wouldn’t be living around the primitive-skinned and sending money to destructive lifeforms that hate us.

Two thirds blamed their employer for failing to support them to be active at work.

And a third told how they struggled to exercise because of a ‘lack of time’ or ‘low energy’, while a quarter blamed ‘low mood’ for causing a lack of motivation to exercise.

Perhaps we should piggyback on yoga’s popularity and start telling people that chairs and the sitting position suck the energy out of their root chakra.

Remember that exercise doesn’t have to take long. You can adjust the amount and type of exercise to fit your schedule. Exercising even a tiny little bit here and there is absolutely much, much better than not exercising at all.

Men have been weaponizing sitting positions to oppress women for too long.

That’s going to change now.

Women will invade yet another masculine space and mimic yet another masculine conduct, and they’re going to do it for their own health.

Daily Mail:

Women should ‘manspread’ – instead of sitting cross-legged – to prevent developing knee and hip pain, a top orthopedic surgeon says.

Barbara Bergin MD sees thousands of patients a year who are struggling with pain under their knee-caps and in their hips – and 90 percent of them are women.

Dr Bergin, who practices in Austin, Texas, believes the driving factor is that women have been trained that it is ‘ladylike’ to sit with their knees together, which twists the femur, putting strain on the joints and the supporting muscles.

Men, meanwhile, tend to sit with their legs spread and their feet firmly on the ground (so-called ‘manspreading’), keeping their body aligned and stable, and stand firmly on both feet, rather than leaning to one side.

In fact, Dr Bergin says, male standing and sitting positions are even better for women than men, because their wider pelvises naturally rotate the femur in.

Women are the real power posers.

In order to fix this problematic overrepresentation of women in the hip and knee pain field, we’re going to use the law to force men to sit like women so they also get knee and hip pain. This is a sacrifice that we have to be willing to make in order to save the planet, as there’s just not enough space for all of us to sit comfortably.

Feminists have been campaigning for this for far too long and they won’t give up, so this orthopedic surgeon can shove her manspread-enabling opinion up her patriarchal ass.

‘I’m not suggesting you S.L.A.M. [sit like a man] constantly,’ Dr Bergin said.

‘I still think it’s best to keep legs shut when wearing a skirt and in the presence of men. It’s just proper and ladylike. But 90 percent of the time, sitting like a man is fine, and certainly better for your health.’

I told you. She’s pro-patriarchy.

Leg-crossing is relatively recent behavior for women.

Women have been taught to sit with their knees together since at least the 1300s as a sign of chastity, etiquette expert Myka Meier told the Washington Post.

But with floor-length skirts it wasn’t vital. And, in fact, some Victorian-era etiquette guides said it was unbecoming for women to cross their legs because it could cause them to slouch or sit at a slant; better to have both feet planted on the ground. Indeed, portraits show Queen Victoria favored a man-spread.

That all changed as the 1900s rolled on, and skirt lengths ascended to mid-calf, then past the knee. Then, it was considered ladylike – even essential – for women to cross or knock their knees.

You could probably just blame the Jews for both the skirt length change and leg crossing pose too.

Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (1992)

It’s kind of funny and sad though. Women dress like sluts, then contort their bodies in weird and unnatural positions to avoid looking like even bigger sluts, and end up with hip and knee pain.

Whether your feet are on the ground or not, keeping the knees together puts undue stress on two key tendons that are responsible for chronic pain: the iliotibial (IT) band that runs along the outside of the leg, and the greater trochanter which runs around your hips.

IT band syndrome, a painful knee condition, occurs when the ligament tightens so much that it rubs the bones. It can be caused by running – a common injury for marathon runners – but it is most strained in a sitting position, with the bent knee pulling the tendon. Crossing or knocking the knees exacerbates it.

The best antidote is to avoid sitting. But if you need to sit, do so with your feet flat on the ground, your legs slightly apart (Dr Bergin, author of the book Sit Like A Man, recommends thinking of 11 and 1 on a clock), and your knees level with or below your hips, to allow the IT band to stretch.

Greater tronchateric pain syndrome (or, lateral hip pain) causes pain to shoot down the sides of the hips and the thighs, even as far as the knees, and can be debilitating.

The main causes are: sitting for long periods, leaning on one leg rather than the other, and crossing the knees. It is particularly common among women over 40, who are already prone to hip strain due to their wider pelvises, more commonly sit with crossed legs, and lean when standing.

Embracing a more male sitting or standing stance, Dr Bergin says, will alleviate much of that pain and tension.

If women want to manspread for health, our benevolence can allow that.

But there’s one nonnegotiable condition.

They all have to be slim and feminine first.

Overweight women are already taking up all of their personal space allowance and more just by existing, so they are going to be banned from spreading any further and forced back into the human form.

There’s a world outside.

Some people like to say that you are what you eat, but considering that lions aren’t gazelles, perhaps we’d be better off trying to solve our existential questions by looking at what we do with our lives instead.

I’m not saying that you are what you do, but these scientists suggest that if you spend most of your time contorted in a pretty disgusting position, you’ll turn into a pretty disgusting creature.

Daily Mail:

She’s got a hunched back, swollen limbs and bloodshot eyes — and in twenty years, you’ll be just like her if you don’t improve your working conditions, experts warn.

‘Emma’ — the sickly work colleague of the future — is a life-sized dummy built to show how sitting all day at ergonomically-unfriendly desk might affect workers.

This cautionary vision was cooked up by researchers after interviews with more than 3,000 employees about their health issues and concerns.

The team call for radical changes to the way we work — including more ergonomic office future and breaks to get staff off of their seats and moving about.

This is what a feminist looks like:

Strong, empowered, and independent.

That’s quite a disgusting sight.

Here’s a lion cub to wash your eyes with:

Offices should be mandated by law to offer standing desks.

Behavioural Futurist William Higham and a team of experts from the fields of ergonomics, occupational health and professional well-being set out to investigate the effects that office workplaces are having on employee health.

Based on surveys of more than 3,000 workers in France, Germany and the UK, the team predicted how offices might change the human body over the next 20 years.

From their findings, which were commissioned by office equipment firm Fellowes, the researchers teamed up with model specialists Helix 3D Ltd to create ‘Emma’ — a disturbingly distorted life-sized mannequin to illustrate the potential impact of modern workstations on our bodies.

Poor Emma has a permanently hunched posture sitting for hours every day over her desk, dry red eyes from prolonged exposure to a computer screen and sallow skin for spending years trapped under the glare of artificial light.

‘The Work Colleague of the Future report shows that employers and workers really need to act now and address the problem of poor workplace health,’ said Mr Higham.

‘Unless we make radical changes to our working lives, such as moving more, addressing our posture at our desks, taking regular walking breaks or considering improving our workstation setup, our offices are going to make us very sick.’

‘As a result, workers in the future could suffer health problems as bad as those we thought we’d left behind in the Industrial Revolution.’

The researchers found that office workers spend an average of six hours sitting at a desk each day.

They may spend an average of six hours sitting at a desk each day, but what about sitting on a couch?

More than 90 per cent of those surveyed reported being concerned that this was too much time — and 98 per cent fearing such could lead to future health problems.

In the UK, the team found that 90 per cent of office workers reported experiencing health issues that reduced their productivity and almost half suffer from eye strain, sore backs and headaches caused by their workspace.

Work-related sick days cost the economy £77 billion every year.

Furthermore, seven out of ten workers reported turning to medications to combat these problems.

Yeah, it’s not enough to show that the working conditions deform and harm the human body — you have to show that the economy is hurt too!

‘Over time, sitting at a desk all day is going to have profound effect on office workers’ health, both physically and psychologically,’ said ergonomics expert and report contributor Stephen Bowden.

‘Steps should be taken to ensure normal everyday movements become part of the job. One way to get people moving and reducing the time they sit for is consider more ergonomic furniture in the workplace, such as sit stand desks.’

These, he added, can help to prevent workers from developing long-term health conditions.

Working conditions may be horrible, but at least you’re in control of the rest of your day.

Taking a walk, playing a sport, exercising, and even just spending time standing are all things that will help you escape poor Emma’s fate.

Humans are mutating.

The modern world dramatically changed the environment and people’s appearances. We have cities made out of monochrome concrete rectangles instead of trees, the internet instead of public squares, and convenience stores instead of hunting trips.

Everyone’s letting go of their muscles and adapting to mobility-scooter-based transportation, hunching to stare at luminous screens for hours and inhabiting cubicles like bugs in a hive.

It is in this context that a very important choice presents itself every day.

Adapt to the modern world as if it were eternal and discard our history and evolution, or reject modernity and go full Greek Mind Warrior?

The choice is up to you.

Study Finds:

It’s hard to believe in today’s day and age, but humans weren’t actually meant to spend all that much time sitting on a daily basis. Our early ancestors were constantly on the move, either avoiding predators or migrating to a more habitable environment, and our bodies evolved accordingly. Still, you wouldn’t know that judging by today’s norms; most people spend their days simply moving from one chair to the next. All of that sitting can cause a variety of health problems, but a new study is proposing a rather simple solution: stand up for your health.

According to researchers from the University of Granada in Spain, spending more time standing up can help our bodies burn more energy and offset the negative health effects of an inactive lifestyle. Just by standing instead of sitting or lying down, our bodies burn 45 more calories every six hours.

The study’s author recommend the widespread adoption of standing desks, which allow employees to stand while they work in an office setting. Adjustable-height standing desks are already quite common in Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, etc.), but researchers say these desks should be utilized all over the world

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“It is really important to change your position,” recommends Jonatan Ruiz, one of the study’s authors. “If a person were to get up, take 10 steps, and sit down again, it appears that the effects of a sedentary lifestyle would be greatly reduced. Therefore, we must educate our school-age children and young people, as well as teachers, about the importance of avoiding spending long periods of time sitting down to considerably reduce the negative consequences of a sedentary lifestyle such as excess weight and obesity, or the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.”

Standing instead of sitting is just one part of the equation. But what about the big chunk of the day where people are not able to stand up?

Daily Mail:

Getting a refreshing sleep isn’t always just a matter of an early night, the position you sleep in can have also a significant effect on your health.

New research commissioned by bedding specialists Ecosa observing the sleeping habits of 4,500 Australians found close to 50 per cent were sleeping in a way that caused health problems.

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Ringo Chan, CEO of Ecosa, has ranked the five sleeping positions from best to worst – and revealed what you can do to break any bad habits.

1. Side position 

According to 55 per cent of Australians who took part in the questionnaire, side sleeping is a preferred position.

And it’s one, Mr Chan said is also proven best for optimum health.

Side sleeping helps open the airways and is a position many people find comfortable and easy to settle into,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘It’s also safest for pregnant women, and can help reduce snoring for those with sleep apnoea.’

2.  Freestyle position

Data from the survey revealed freestyle sleeping, a way of sleeping that’s not fixed to any one position, is the second most popular with 23 per cent saying its their preferred.

Mr Chan said while freestyle sleepers do move around a bit during the night, doing so was good for the body’s circulation and nutrient distribution.

He added freestyle sleepers are more likely to wake up feeling fresher in the morning as their joints are won’t stiffen during the night.

3. Back position

Back sleeping ranked as the third most popular position with 15 per cent of those questioned saying it was their favoured sleeping style.

While fewer said they enjoyed this position, Mr Chan said he rated it as one that’s best for your back.

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4. Stomach position

Data showed that just 6.7 per cent of participants who took part in the survey admitted to sleeping on their stomachs.

Healthline reports sleeping on your stomach has some benefits, including reducing snoring and diminishing sleep apnoea.

However, it’s also taxing for your back and neck: The position can cause pain, headaches, and poor posture.

‘If you do sleep on your stomach, your pillow height is critical to your neck health,’ Mr Chan said.

‘Generally, a very low pillow or no pillow at all is recommended for stomach sleepers, as the standard height of a pillow will raise your neck too high.

5. Fetal position

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This style earns its name from being most similar to how a child might sleep, that is on their side with this legs curled up underneath them.

‘The fetal position is a popular sleeping position for many,’ said Mr Chan adding ‘and can be a comfortable way to keep your spine protected and snoring at bay.’

Standing up instead of sitting may be difficult at first, because most people’s muscles are not used to having to do what muscles are supposed to do. That’s all the more reason to stand up.

What will it be? The deforming comfort of modernity or the sculpting discomfort of struggle?

This wearable chair could change how we work and travel pic.twitter.com/KO8QoUcrut

— Tech Insider (@techinsider) September 18, 2019

Are people turning into insects?

The Guardian:

On Wednesday night, the Tech Insider Twitter account made a simple statement: “This wearable chair could change how we work and travel.” The text was accompanied by a short video advertising the LEX bionic chair, a pair of £200 foldable aluminium legs that you strap to your bum and lean against whenever your legs get a bit tired. In the video, a man uses the LEX while sitting at a desk, waiting for a bus, and taking photos. It really does it all.

The LEX began as a Kickstarter project last September, which claimed the chair was designed to enhance “posture, comfort and life”. It has already been fully funded – according to the Kickstarter, more than $143,000 (£115,000) has been pledged, smashing the $50,000 goal – which proves that there is a market for it, but the Tech Insider tweet provoked less positive reactions. “I’m not sure ass prongs was the invention the world was waiting for,” replied one user. Another simply stated: “LAME”.

It looks like a parody.

But then again, most things today look like a parody.

It certainly doesn’t look like something able to hold the weight of the average American.

Why are they discriminating against Blob People?

The LEX website offers the tempting prospect of being able to sit down anywhere, whenever you want. Wear it on a hike and you can stop for a breather with minimal fuss. Wear it on your commute and you’re guaranteed a seat at the platform. It will stop you crouching down uncomfortably during DIY.

More than that, though, the LEX is a nifty posture-correction tool. Used standing up or sitting down, it’s in essence an exoskeleton that helps to keep your back in good alignment whether you’re sitting or standing. It even comes with something called a “load distribution module”, a little platform that you can rest your backpack on as you wear it, significantly lowering the burden on your spine. When you think about the money that the NHS spends on treating back pain each year – not to mention the effect on the economy of days lost to back pain – then the LEX could become more than just a nifty little seat; it might even help fix a broken nation.

People should spend more time standing than sitting, but if we’re going the muscle atrophy route, couldn’t they at least make it look cool?

The answer to postural problems isn’t to sit “properly” but to kick the chair out and stand up.

Most people in the West have trouble standing up for more than 20 minutes because their muscles are so weak that they can’t keep their skeleton straight.

Adding an exoskeleton won’t improve anything — but it will make everyone more like insects.

Quite a fitting destiny for people already living in concrete hives and working in cubicles.

Shocker: Your eyes are designed for looking at objects that are more than a few inches away from your face.

Study Finds:

So many people, especially young people and teenagers, spend a significant period of time each day staring at a screen of some kind, whether that be a computer, smartphone, tablet, or the regular old TV. Now, a new study is warning parents that all that screen time may be behind a stunning rise in children who need prescription glasses.

According to the report released by United Kingdom-based eye care company Scrivens Opticians, the percentage of 13-16 year olds in the U.K. who need glasses has nearly doubled over the past seven years — from 20% in 2012 to 35% in 2018. Two-thirds of those teens were diagnosed as being myopic, or short-sighted.

Researchers theorize that this significant increase in eye problems among young people is likely linked to excessive time spent staring at screens, which can lead to eye strain, shortsightedness, and blurred vision. In fact, the study also found that the average 13-16 year old spends around 26 hours per week staring at a smartphone, playing video games, or watching TV.

Overall, optometrists from Scrivens say that much more research is needed to determine what all this screen time is really doing to teens’ eyes, especially in the long-term.

Like everything else in the modern world, spending all day staring at objects right in front of your face is a society-wide experiment with unknown yet predictably bad consequences that Our Leaders have decided to engage in because we are willing to partake in it.

The best remedy for this, obviously, is to not screw around on your phone all day. Aside from your eyes, mass cell phone usage is most likely a sign of the coming Antichrist.

However, even if you can put down the phone, many or most of you probably have to use a computer for hours upon hours at work every day (if you’re lucky enough to only spend an hour a day reading this website, you are luckier than most).

Even if you can avoid eye problems (and if you’re an adult, you probably can), you are still going to be dealing with massive problems with your posture at most workstations.

If you have real screen work to do, don’t do this:

Make sure your screen is at the right distance and at eye level, and your keyboard is at hand level. You may need to put your monitor on top of something to bring it up to your level. It’s impossible to achieve both of these objectives at the same time with a laptop, so get a real keyboard for your workstation.

If you want to really be comfortable and your legs haven’t calcified yet, just unscrew the armrests and the back from your office chair so that your back straightens under your own weight, and so that can switch between sitting cross-legged, sitting on your ankles, etc.

You can also demand that your workplace provide you with a standing desk. If they refuse, you can get a letter from a doctor very easily by just saying you have posture and lower back problems.

But the bottom line is that these devices are not good for anyone.

Whenever you can, go outside.

And go to the gym to counteract the problems that they cause your body.

Sitting down constantly is changing the shape of your spine and fucking your body up worse than pretty much anything else you do.

The easiest way to fix this is to work on proper posture and not sit as often.

Anglin has mentioned this before and suggested getting standing desks, which could be good, but if you don’t want to do that you should get a solid chair/bench slav squat instead.

Doing that will keep your back straight and is a more natural resting position for humans.