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Don't just sit there

I was reading another one of those articles the other day about how if you spend all of your time sitting, you're going to die much earlier. These articles didn't used to bother me as I sat in front of the TV or my computer at work. But after experiencing a health scare three years ago, I now do some form of exercise almost every day and I am relieved that I do. I still spend a lot of time sitting at work (I'm now one of those annoying people who thinks it's a good idea to have everybody stand at work instead of sit). And I still do a lot of sitting writing this blog. But thank goodness I'm exerting myself at other times so I'm not so guilt-ridden when one of those articles appears again. But I started thinking, how did we get so sedentary? TV, for sure. Processed food, definitely. The ability to be entertained by a tiny screen, currently. But I'm also going to go out on a limb (no, that's not one of my forms of exercise) and blame Fleer. Ye...