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Except that the keyword here is risk. It isn't set in stone that if someone sits on a chair for more than 6 hours that they're automatically going to die young. Additionally, who's to know where they got their facts from? These are all facts based on either the average of studied Americans or on the people they chose themselves to promote you to not stay on your ass sitting. In other words, a portion of the people they were studying were likely obese, thus weighing down the average among healthier people in the study. As for kids sitting at school for more than 6 hours, that's also quite a lie. You do realize they have a thing called "gym class" in most schools that have kids up and around working their bodies.
Of course, I'm not saying that you shouldn't get off your ass and do something once in a while. Because in the end the article is still correct on sitting for a long time being bad for you, just not as bad as they make it look the point where it's killing you (unless you were, iunno, obese, then yeah. Get off your ass and work out).
Objection. The word "risk" comes from the fact that your health has deteriorated. In that sense, its very much comparable to using the word "risk" in a formed sentence such as "because this man has AIDS, he is at much greater risk for death". Although there isn't a clear cut diagnosis of the condition caused by lack of health resulted through long periods of sitting, if you really think of it as a condition, then the sentence makes much more sense. And you should think of it as a type of condition.
In college, doing studies like these is actually a huge part of a course you usually take if you're in statistics. You learn how to do these studies objectively, though that isn't always the case, unfortunately. However, given the wording seen in this study, I'm fairly confident that they didn't go around asking "random fat people" about their lives and health.
Here, you'll see them comparing between "people who sit at their jobs" and people who don't. That alone is actually a reasonable comparison, given a full time job consists of 8 hours work daily, which in turn would probably mean approximately 7 to 8 hours of sitting every day.
Since they're looking into long term effects and medical histories, its safe to say they're actually targeting a much older age for this study, and NOT high school students taking gym class.
As for the "risks", you only need to look at the nonstatistical facts given in the "How Sitting Wrecks Your Body" part of the image, which shows exactly what sitting still does to your body. These are all signs of poor health related to cardiovascular diseases, weight gain, diabetes, etc. You don't even need to do a study then, you can just do some basic math to see exactly how much difference you're making towards not keeping your body healthy through the years to know, you're most likely going to die before someone else who is constantly actively moving.
And of course there are always going to be exceptions. Of course this isn't the ONLY factor to life and death. As exemplified by the
teen who ate nothing but mcnuggets for 15 years, she ACTUALLY survived for 15 years!! Anyone would probably tell you that your risk for death after eating nothing but mcnuggets for your diet would be probably incredibly high after even a few months. Its all in the probability, alongside every other factor that goes into it.