Learning Challenge: Prolonged Sitting and Health

I read Get Off The Couch Baby Boomers, Or You May Not Be Able To Later (Link) and I found this article to be super interesting. Since I am going to medical school I am really interested in health trends and how day-to-day activity can impact our long term health. When it comes to prolonged sitting and binge-watching TV, it is such a relatively new trend that it has not been studied yet because the people who primarily do it (millenials) are not at the age where they are feeling the impacts of these behaviors. It is common knowledge that inactivity can lead to activity deficits in old age (an object at rest tends to stay at rest) and sitting for long stretches of time can lead to a host of problems, including obesity and blood clots. It is something that the medical community and society at large will have to make an effort to educate the public about, or we may see a whole generation with motor deficits directly related to the amount of time spent binge watching tv and on the internet.

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