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Desk jobs Can Be Killers,Literally,The Washington Post,July 16th,2013
坐著工作可能的確會成為殺手，華盛頓郵報，2013年7月16日
Jensen explains that he and his colleagues were studying weight control when they discovered that some people "spontaneously start moving round and don't gain weight" when they have overeaten.
Jense解釋說，他和他的同事們在研究如何控制體重時發現，那些吃多了之后，不自覺地走兩圈的人不會變胖。
"This really got us thinking about this urge to move," Jensen says, "and how important that might be for maintaining good health."
Jense說：“這還真讓我們意識到運動的緊迫性以及運動對保持健康的重要性。”
That led them to a field known as "inactivity research, "which suggests that inactivity, particularly sitting, can be very bad for your health.
這促使他們進行了一項稱之為“不活動的研究”，研究表明，不運動尤其是坐著，對健康的損害是很大的。
It might sound like statement of the obvious, but the killer point is this:
這一結論似乎是眾所周知的。但關鍵在于：
Inactivity is bad for you even if you exercise.
即使你做過鍛煉，不活動帶來的損害也是存在的。
Heading to the gym is not a license to spend the rest of the day on your backside.
去健身房鍛煉過并不意味著你可以花剩下的時間用來坐著。
In 2010, a team led by Alpa Patel of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta analyzed the data from a 14-year study of 123000 middle-aged adults.
2010年由Alpa Patel主持領導的亞特蘭大美國癌癥協會小組，分析了一項12.3萬中年人為對象的長達14年的研究數據。
When they compared mortality rates of those who spent six hours a day or more sitting and those who reported three or fewer hours
比較每天至少坐6個小時和每天坐不到3個小時的人的死亡率，
and when they took into account other factors such as diet
在考慮了其他因素如飲食的影響下，
they found something surprising:
結果讓人驚訝：
Extra time on the couch was associated with a 34 percent higher mortality rate for women and 17 percent higher for men in the 14 years after they joined the study.
在參加研究的14年里，坐時間長的人的死亡率與坐時間短的人的死亡率相比，女性高出34%，男性高出17%。
It is not clear why there is such a big sex difference.
為什么在性別方面會有如此大的差異尚不明確。
In another study, a team analyzed data on the television viewing habits of 8800 Australians.
在另一項研究中，分析了8800名澳大利亞人看電視的習慣。
They calculated that each hour of television correlated with 22 minutes off the average life expectancy of an adult older than 25.
研究計算出，對于25歲以上的成年人，每看1小時的電視，預期壽命就減少22分鐘。
The message is clear： Sitting still for hour at a time might be a health risk regardless of what you do with the rest of your day.Thank you.
顯然，一次坐太久對健康造成的損害，是無論你用剩下的時間做多少運動都彌補不了的。謝謝。
