Get up! why your chair is killing you and what you can do about it

"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...

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Main Author: Levine, James A. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The chairman's rise to power. In the beginning ; Feed me, move me ; The brain strain ; Despite your chair, you are an individual
  • The chairman's curse. The chair-cursed body ; The chair-cursed mind ; The chair-cursed car ; The chairman's vision
  • Oust the chairman : the solution revolution. Solutions : why do we need them? ; Invent! Underwear solutions ; Work! Office solutions ; Learn! Education solutions ; GET UP!, Step 1 : get personal! ; GET UP!, Step 2 : plan! ; GET UP!, Step 3 : weapons! ; GET UP!, Step 4 : play! : the pulse of creativity ; Defeat the chairman : end lethal sitting.