Sitting is the new Smoking

When I was young, a lot of time and effort went into educating me, and my fellow students at school, on all of the many health risks of smoking. This was something that for our parents and especially our grandparents was largely unknown. Roll onto the late 1980s and early 1990s and the schools were filled with a mass publicity campaign surrounding the negative impact of smoking on your long term heath. I’ve heard it argued that sitting is the new smoking. Sitting is also something that has a number of currently unknown long term health risks associated with it.

Sitting as something we cannot avoid

I work in office job. This would be the kind of office job that even my father, who worked in an office, would not recognise. But it is not just our work that has changed. In fact, there are significant cultural shifts in 4 areas that now come into play and work is only one of them.

Disclaimer: writing this post makes me feel old!

Leisure Activity

In my life time, leisure activity has changed significantly. Not just in terms of what we do, but also how we do it. The invention and the rise of online entertainment streaming has changed leisure significantly. It is now increasingly common that leisure activity is predominantly spent watching the TV, or maybe even playing…