Rise up from behind those keyboards, pry yourselves from your ergonomic chairs and spring forth from your cubicles. It's time for battle. After all, office drones, your lives are at stake. Obesity, the deadly epidemic of corpulence, is creeping across the nation's high-rises and office parks fattening you up for the kill. About 300,000 U.S. deaths each year are attributed to obesity, along with a host of From Desk Potato to Couch Potato Unfortunately for our nation's health, not enough Americans are compensating for their lack of movement during the day by squeezing workouts into their busy schedules.
Workers are more likely to get home, plop on the couch and watch television.
Our human instincts for efficiency have probably helped us evolve to this level of inactivity in our daily lives, Hensrud says, leading to such inventions as the elevator and the computer. But nowadays in our society, it's coming back to haunt us. This site is using the Aqua 1.2 theme.