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		salmonellaeater on May 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'The chair is out to kill us'. Studies point to th... Person B is more likely to die early. Sitting is correlated with bad health, independent of your diet and amount of exercise. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22218159 Now, I'd love to see a randomized trial over a long time period to find out whether sitting actually causes bad health, or is just correlated.

TheBiv on May 27, 2013 [–]

I doubt we learned anything from the study above, bc your end conclusion is the exact question that the person before you led with.

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