It’s common knowledge being a couch potato is not healthy.

But, even if you exercise regularly, your job may be forcing you into couch potato condition and endangering your health.

Today’s computer, once merely convenient, is now essential to most jobs, and has absorbed a lot of other tasks that used to require running around on two feet:  scanning, printing, emailing, faxing, interoffice delivery….

Sitting now dominates our work days and the ramifications are approaching the danger zone, according to new research at Harvard University.

Yes, sitting is the new smoking.

Computer use has tied us to seated position, and many of us don’t move for hours. Even if you exercise regularly, but sit the rest of the day, you are described as a sedentary individual. The danger zone starts at sitting 8 hours a day.

What’s the effect of this phenomenon on our bodies? Research has linked excessive sitting to obesity, diabetes, some cancers, heart disease and higher death rates.

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