Don't Sit Down for This
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
April 13, 2018 5:04am CST
This morning's news included a shocking new study (there's one a day, you know - this was Friday's shocking new study) that absolutely proves that sitting at your desk all day will damage your brain. In fact, it makes your brain thin.
Thin is a highly desirable characteristic when it comes to your hips, but not to your brain, apparently. Thin brains are senile brains, they seem to be saying. And getting up and moving about is good for your brain.
Of course, we can see this over the course of human history. Our ancestors who once hunted the mighty mastodon and did a lot of running for their lives were brilliant creatures with massive brain power. Compare them with modern humans, stuck behind desks all day while their brains thin. Obviously, ancient humans were a million times smarter, they were fat-heads. I mean, who's invented a wheel lately, or discovered fire? Let's face it, everything we developed after that is derivative.
So, if I want to be clever, I should go jogging or something. No sitting and thinking, that's going to cause brain damage.
On the whole, I think I will risk it. How about you?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/12/sitting-desk-day-may-damage-brain-raise-dementia-risk-study/
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22 responses
@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
13 Apr 18
This contradict what we know about the evolution of humans. The brain size was bigger (relative to body size) during the evolutionary path from early primates to hominids. Then it became smaller, but from 2 million years ago is now bigger. I think that humans moved more 2 millions years ago than in our days. I think that keeping the brain active is more important than moving the body. Staring at a cellphone looking a Facebook page all the day is not what I call "keeping a brain active".
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
13 Apr 18
I think they just have to keep coming up with new theories to keep the grant money rolling in. No staring at Facebook today, it's No Facebook Friday. Today is the day we stay off Facebook to let them kinow we're unhappy with their data mining. I just hope more people will join my other social networks so I have someone to talk to outside of Facebook. I should do some computer work that requires my brain.
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@Cristi_Ichim (3663)
• Bucharest, Romania
6 May 18
is it just because of sitting or is it because of the computer monitor too?
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
2 Jul 18
@Cristi_Ichim I come and go. I am a bit directionless.
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@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
13 Apr 18
If we went along with every study done we'd not know what side was up. I would think that watching tv all day long might harm the brain more than working at a desk since most that work at a desk have to make decisions and use their brain not just stare at the same thing all day long.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
13 Apr 18
I don't think it matters what a study finds or recommends, it's about how much money is in the grant and how to keep the grant money coming so you don't have to get a real job where you have to prove you've actually done something useful before you get paid.
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@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Apr 18
@Rollo1 not all jobs with grants are tat way, I don't think. One of my sisters first jobs was as a chemist in a lab, but she half to find something else once the grant was gone. Not sure what they were testing. Maybe, if I remember I will ask as we'll be staying together in a condo soon.
@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Apr 18
@Rollo1 We're all different and what one of us needs might be bad for another person. I met an older woman a few years back when my mom was living in a senior apartment building. This lady told me her doctor told her to have regular coffee on a daily basis to enable her not to continue getting migraines. Although, coffee might help my migraines, I doubt when I was having them more that drinking coffee daily would do that much good.
@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
13 Apr 18
The two aren't mutually exclusive. It's possible to sit at a desk all day and then also do some exercise.
I suppose it must ultimately depend upon the sort of mental tasks that are performed while sat at a desk all day. I would have thought anything boring and repetitive isn't good for the brain but something challenging must surely be good!!
POOR TASTE GAG ALERT!
If this is true, just think how much more clever Stephen Hawking could have been if he'd been able to get out of his chair!!
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
13 Apr 18
And think of how brilliant athletes are! 
It seems to me that Hawking mght have been just as much of a genius if he wasn't so physically disabled, but it is also likely that he wouldn't have spent quite so much time being brilliant. Perhaps we should all look for balance in our lives. Most of us would be happy to have an IQ somewhere between David Beckham and Stephen Hawking.
It seems to me that Hawking mght have been just as much of a genius if he wasn't so physically disabled, but it is also likely that he wouldn't have spent quite so much time being brilliant. Perhaps we should all look for balance in our lives. Most of us would be happy to have an IQ somewhere between David Beckham and Stephen Hawking.1 person likes this
Fair point about Stephen Hawking. If he wasn't disabled he mightn't have spent as much time thinking about stuff.
@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
13 Apr 18
Ohh thanks for sharing dear friend... We should try to have an active lifestyle ..
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
13 Apr 18
So, you're telling me to stop reading interesting things on the internet and get up and get out and go for a walk?
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
30 Jun 18
I spend so much time sitting down that my brains should be dribbling out my ears now
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
2 Jul 18
@Rollo1 even intensely creative minds can succumb to demenias - there are sadly no guarentees
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
1 May 18
I read another shocking study recently that said that those standing up desks weren't very good for productivity. I think the best thing is to sit at your desk, do what you have to do, then get up and go outside for some fresh air for 10 minutes every so often. Breaks are good for the mind.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
14 Apr 18
Unfortunately since computers, ipads, iphones, cellphones, etc do most of the 'thinking' for humans now; I can see the lack of brain capacity @Rollo1 .
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
17 Apr 18
@Rollo1 I know and that's pretty darn scary if you ask me.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
2 Jul 18
lol NO jogging but I have become much more active in the last 3 years and overall I may not be smarter but I feel better.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48890)
• United States
18 Jun 18
I definitely get a lot of walking and movement these days. I hope that it is enough.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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13 Apr 18
I'm also quite sure that I read somewhere that your brain starts eating itself, but I can't remember if that's when you're hungry, thirsty or sedantry. Or maybe I simply dreamt it.
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@saritflor (3914)
• Hungary
27 Jun 18
But also when we sit, our brain keep working.. I don't this is true
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