This is a subject that is widespread and under reported. The reason being that people whose skeletons are abused by unhealthy extended periods of sitting are often embarrassed to complain due to ridicule and shaming. Mainly from boneheads that are mistakenly envious of positions where people make their livings sendentarily, and dismissive exploitative employers. eg. Lintco.
-- Edited by Thunderwagon5000 on Tuesday 28th of May 2013 07:59:16 AM
Uke plans on smoking. Starting next Wednesday. For sure! More health benefits than sitting.
Thunderwagon5000 said
3:00 PM, 05/28/13
Why is there so much fuss being made about sitting?
Widespread mechanization and automation have affected virtually every sector of the Canadian economy. From offices to industry, new technologies have changed the way people do their jobs. Machines are now doing work previously done manually. More and more people work in a sitting position to operate these machines.
Sitting jobs require less muscular effort, but that does not exempt people from the injury risks usually associated with more physically demanding tasks. For example, clerks, electronic assembly-line employees, and data entry operators who work in a sitting position also suffer back pain, muscle tenderness and aches. In fact, reports of varicose veins, stiff necks, and numbness in the legs are more common among seated employees than among those doing heavier tasks.
Careful with your criticism of LINTCO. They're still a cult... More widespread than the Moran Church yes, but as deadly as ever! They've been known ta shoot first...
Cy Valley said
3:33 PM, 05/28/13
Uke wrote:
Careful with your criticism of LINTCO. They're still a cult... More widespread than the Moran Church yes, but as deadly as ever! They've been known ta shoot first...
This is a subject that is widespread and under reported. The reason being that people whose skeletons are abused by unhealthy extended periods of sitting are often embarrassed to complain due to ridicule and shaming. Mainly from boneheads that are mistakenly envious of positions where people make their livings sendentarily, and dismissive exploitative employers. eg. Lintco.
-- Edited by Thunderwagon5000 on Tuesday 28th of May 2013 07:59:16 AM
I had a "sit-down" job for 26 years at the RR.
I had the ass-developement to withstand all
that sitting and "getting-up" all the time.
After I retired from railroad work and started
working in my garden many hours a day, I
noticed my ass had "shrunk" and I had to
create a few new holes in my belt to keep
my pants up. My generations of kin going back
to the Civil War were farmers. No old pictures
of people that were "fat".
Don't just sit there. Really.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-dont-sit-20130525,0,3673157.story
Why is there so much fuss being made about sitting?
Widespread mechanization and automation have affected virtually every sector of the Canadian economy. From offices to industry, new technologies have changed the way people do their jobs. Machines are now doing work previously done manually. More and more people work in a sitting position to operate these machines.
Sitting jobs require less muscular effort, but that does not exempt people from the injury risks usually associated with more physically demanding tasks. For example, clerks, electronic assembly-line employees, and data entry operators who work in a sitting position also suffer back pain, muscle tenderness and aches. In fact, reports of varicose veins, stiff necks, and numbness in the legs are more common among seated employees than among those doing heavier tasks.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/sitting/sitting_overview.html
. . .and ruin attitudes.