We know sitting is bad for us. But what are we supposed to do instead?
Culture Study Podcast
Anne Helen Petersen
4.6 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Driving, attending meetings, hunching over laptops, zooming, commuting, absentmindedly scrolling Instagram — so much of contemporary life encourages if not outright demands that we sit. But study after study (and maybe just your own body) has told you: this much sitting is not great for us. But what are we supposed to do instead? Can we get rid of the junk wellness moralizing (10,000 steps a day!) and figure out small things that actually make our bodies feel better?
Turns out, yes! And Manoush Zomorodi is here to talk about all of it — including whether those walking pads are b******t. And I promise: this show won't make you feel like a horrible person for sitting. But it might give you some ideas about how you can listen to your body more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I want to tell you about another podcast that I love. It's called What Should I Read Next? |
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| 1:15.8 | So I am going to do something kind of dirty right now, and I'm going to ask you, |
| 1:18.1 | how are you sitting right now? |
| 1:19.0 | Oh my God. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm so uncomfortable, Ann, I'm sitting at my husband's desk in the basement because my daughter's home's sick. |
| 1:27.1 | So I'm next to like his peloton and like basically in the basement because my daughter's home's sick. So I'm next to like his peloton and like |
| 1:30.6 | basically in the man cave, I guess. I'm really not feeling the feels down here. Desperate to go back |
| 1:37.5 | to my little office, which is a few blocks away. But you know, kid, sick, all those things. |
| 1:42.7 | So I came up with this idea because i was so embarrassed of how |
| 1:46.7 | i'm currently sitting which i am sitting on one of these little stools that has like the |
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