Is Your Office Chair Killing You?

The average American office worker probably spends over 80,000 hours sitting in an office chair over the course of their career. That's bad news for all of the cubicle warriors out there. In addition to the fact that prolonged periods of sitting can aggravate neck and back problems, recent research analyzing obesity, heart disease, and diabetes suggests that the act of sitting shuts down the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase which can inhibit the body's ability to process fat and cholesterol.