Quotes About Sedentary

In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

Los intelectuales de Occidente son todos aficionados a la silla. Por eso la mayoría de ustedes son tan repulsivamente malsanos.

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Because the rest of us are evaluated more by what we do with our minds than with our bodies, we tend to discount the role that physical energy plays in performance. In most jobs, the physical body has been completely cut off from the performance equation. In reality, physical energy is the fundamental source of fuel, even if our work is almost completely sedentary.

Barrow, where I live, is a traditional town that still has some heavy industry, but the jobs are more sedentary than in our fathers' day.

As we get older, aerobic capacity usually decreases, dropping by as much as 1 percent per year after age 25 in sedentary people.

Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Sometimes I log more than my fair share of hours on my tush - behind my desk, in the car, in front of the TV. And all that sitting can turn even the tightest buns into rice pudding.

I do crunches to keep those abs going strong and flat. I'm not a sedentary person.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.

La guerra –violencia organizada con un propósito entre dos unidades políticas– se fue volviendo más elaborada cuando desarrollamos sociedades sedentarias establecidas y ayudó a que estas fueran más organizadas y poderosas. De

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being," a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders concluded in 2012. "In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

Sedentary behavior causes brain impairment, and we know how: by depriving your brain of the flood of neurochemistry that evolution developed in order to grow brains and keep them healthy.

Native American farmers revealed all of these problems. Native Americans showed evidence of suffering diseases of civilization long before Western civilization arrived, which is why we need to define civilization as the arrival of domestication, of agriculture. We are really talking about diseases of agriculture and adoption of the sedentary way of life.