Desk jobs can be killers, literally - The Washington Post
The studies reveal that inactivity produces a complex cascade of metabolic changes. For example, unused muscles not only atrophy but also shift from endurance-type muscle fibers that can burn fat to fast-twitch fibers that rely more strongly on glucose. Inactive muscles also lose mitochondria, the cells’ power packs, which can also burn fat. With the muscles relying more on carbohydrates for what little work they are doing, unburned lipids accumulate.
“Your blood is going to become very fatty,” Bergouignan says, which could be why sitting has been linked to heart disease.
The Dangers of Sitting at Work and Standing - TIME
Standing desks are in. Once the province of a few dynamic individuals like Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway and Donald Rumsfeld (O.K., two out of three ain't bad), the stand-up desk is spreading to the world of corporate drones. And for good reason — there’s a growing body of medical evidence that hours of uninterrupted sitting can be surprisingly bad for your health.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/13/the-dangers-of-sitting-at-work%E2%80%94and-standing/
Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit.
The research, published in separate medical journals this month, adds to a growing scientific consensus that the more time someone spends sitting, especially in front of the television, the shorter and less robust his or her life may be.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/get-up-get-out-dont-sit/
The Risks of a Sedentary Lifestyle: Stand up for Your Health
Spending hours on end in a chair isn't just murder on your back—it can literally kill you. And if you're like the average person, you clock almost 55 hours a week on your duff. Shockingly, working out isn't an antidote. Here, what is.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/standing-desk
Your Office Chair Is Killing You - Business Week
"When you're sitting, you're bearing all that weight through the pelvis and spine, and it puts the highest pressure on your back discs. Looking at MRIs, even sitting with perfect posture causes serious pressure on your back." Dr. Andrew C, Hecht, co-chief of spinal surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm
Can your desk help you lose weight?
James Levine has reviewed the statistics: One in three Minnesota adults is either diabetic or prediabetic, and one in four is obese.And he thinks he's found the underlying ailment: "The sitting disease." "Sitting is sort of the new smoking," the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist said Wednesday on the eve of an experiment designed to tackle so-called "lifestyle" diseases.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2017392170_webdesk03.html
Get off that deadly chair: Sitting too long raises fatality risk, experts say
Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn't matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the overall number of hours it occurs.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-20-sitting-death_N.htm
Sitting too long raises death risk
Get up off your chair -- your life is at stake, a new study suggests.
Sitting more than six hours a day raises your risk of death, even if you work out, said the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/sitting-too-long-death_n_884152.html
Sitting in front of desk too long. The Effect
The aforementioned problems are very common among desk bound and computer users, unfortunately the situation is not quickly discovered, though the problem is cumulative and hence there is a gradual deterioration which can be quickly rectified at any stage (not always, but in most cases this holds true.
http://thehealthblogger.com/sitting-in-front-of-the-computer-for-too-long-the-effects-part-1/