Are you sitting down, because the following news might just make you want to run away from chairs for the rest of your short, miserable life.



The data was compiled off five different large-scale studies with two million subjects, which make the results that much more damning. Doctors have long warned about the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, but this latest research indicates that sitting for more than three hours a day can shorten your life by about two years.

And it's even worse for couch potatoes, as the findings suggests that people who watch fewer than two hours of live television a day live an average of 1.4 years longer.  And all this sitting on your ass has gotten so bad that Peter Katzmarzyk (lead author of the paper) even compared it to smoking:
And apparently, exercising regularly aren't enough to combat the dangers of sitting, which means all that efforts spent at the gym after work was really for nothing but bragging rights. You might as well just lay down on the floor and wait for the inevitable.