If there are two characteristics that define me, they are my susceptibility to memes, and my fear of death. So when a meme arrives telling me my life is in danger, I pay attention.
Over the last few years, the media has come alive with reports to the effect that sitting kills you. You may have seen the stories--in the Times, in HuffPo, on NPR. The gist of the argument is that a life whiled away before a desk wreaks a havoc on your health so great that even regular exercise cannot undo it. If you sit too much, no amount of penance at the bench press will save you. What the summer of 1975 did for sharks, what the fall of 2001 did for anthrax, the last few years have been doing for that seemingly innocuous object: the chair.
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