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Get Up!

Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It

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Get Up!

By: James A. Levine
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Richard Gilliland, Leigh Roche, Stefan Rudnicki
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About this listen

From the codirector of the Mayo Clinic/Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and inventor of the treadmill desk comes a fascinating wake-up call about our sedentary lifestyle.

That the average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their day sitting is no surprise to anyone who works in an office environment. But few realize the health consequences they are suffering as a result of modernity's increasingly sedentary lifestyle, or the effects it has had on society at large. In Get Up!, health expert James A. Levine's original scientific research shows that today's chair-based world, where we no longer use our bodies as they evolved to be used, is having negativeconsequences on our health, and is a leading cause of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Over the decades, humans have moved from a primarily active lifestyle to one that is largely sedentary, and this change has reshaped every facet of our lives - from social interaction to classroom design. Levine shows how to throw off the shackles of inertia and reverse these negative trends through simple changes in our daily lives.

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Really enjoyed this, educational and very humorous. I feel an urge to stand and also... to raise snails :-) 5 out of 5

Great listen!

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We need more chair rebels in the world!
Levine does a brilliant job of PROVING what we ALL know but that which culture sustains
Levine you are my hero!!

Starting with he book over already!
Rachel Frances Thomson
Chair rebel

The game changer every ‘sitter’ MUST READ!

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Excellent! I have been more active and I do understand my children and when you they need to be active instead of them being sitting.

Excellent Book

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I’ve already recommended this book to my students to listen to or read. Having suffered the chair prison during lockdown I can attest that I have since been suffering from back and neck pain and I needed this to remind me to be proactive about to to help myself as well as ask for help from my employers as well as medical professionals so thank you for this. I wonder what life would be like if we all had more activity and less sitting in our lives!

Fascinating and very true!

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Since listening to this, I have reduced my sitting time and consciously include more movement into my day.

thought provoking

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