"People are sitting down at work, then sitting in the car and then sitting down in front of the television, " says Dr Buckley.
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This study covered not only leisure time watching TV, but also time spent sitting at work.
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With growing research about the health dangers of sitting at work, the commercial market for standing desks is picking up steam.
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Women who spent 41 to 60 hours a week driving or sitting at work were 42% more likely to require gallbladder surgery than women who spent fewer than six hours in similar sedentary activities.
The basic idea is pretty simple: Make your car, which is just sitting around anyway, work for you by going on cellphone-app-enabled trips for customers of personal car sharing services.
"There just seems to be a cloud of depression sitting round about where I work, " he says.
On other days that involve just a 15-minute walk to work, then sitting in front of a computer, it's much harder to meet my meager goal of two hours of activity.
And then, after another few days of work, he was sitting in a taxi, stuck in midtown traffic.
Rather, it is, what would they have done sitting around at home waiting for work versus what would they have done in the public sector?
Family secrets were revealed with ease, spilling my guts was a daily occurrence, and soon I found myself sitting at the bar, after work, continuing right where eight hours in the vault left off.
Mostly it's about checking the time without giving the impression I'm hurried, picking up phone calls effortlessly, and accessing new emails so quickly it doesn't seem like work - compared to sitting at a computer in a stuffy office.
Cafes sell steaming coffee in stylish cups, civil servants dutifully go to work, and children are sitting their exams.
We have always said that the best way to work out these issues is sitting at that table and negotiating them through, and that's what the focus will be on.
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Changes in the body caused by sitting may not be the only factor at work.
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Urban environments also tend to promote more behavior tailored to sitting, especially while commuting, or at work or during our leisure time.
They opt for white-collar jobs over blue-collar jobs, or (depending on their personality) jobs that let them work with other people rather than sitting at a desk, or outside rather than inside.
And he believes -- the President believes, the Secretary of Education believes that the best way to deal with this is for people to address these problems by sitting down at the table to collaborate and work out a solution.
Now both these ventures are in trouble, while EADS's rival, Boeing, is sitting more comfortably on a fat cushion of defence work.
And when the economy grows, we all will be happy to pay more taxes because we all will be back at work, busy making money instead of sitting at home on food stamps and unemployment.
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The uncertainty of the past half-decade leaves businesses with lean work forces and aging capital and leaves households sitting on too much cash.
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Some of the little tricks that always work with younger boys are things like always sitting in a sofa, or a chair with big, soft arms if possible.
Based on this guidance, the CDC preparedness plan devotes dozens of pages to potential NPIs, from voluntary isolation to reorganizing company work schedules to reduce the density of people sitting next to each other in the office or while riding trains and buses.
Maxygen is doing what larger companies often do: It's sitting back and waiting to see if tiny Kosan can really work antibiotic wizardry.
Most users at work, including Mac users, get PowerPoint already sitting on their computers as part of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office Suite.
Bear's work suggests that a specific class of drug already sitting on drug company shelves may help patients with an inherited disease called fragile X syndrome, a common cause of autism.
She said she returned from work to find a man who looked like the suspect sitting on her couch, said Montgomery Mayor Tommy Strange.
Baucher's pictures capture some of the 900 traders in the halls, at work, engaging with their customers and sometimes just proudly sitting in front of their stalls.
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