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In Praise of Joints

Author of Body Odyssey: Lessons from the Bones and Belly and of Daily Comfort for Caregivers, www.bodyodyssey.biz More…

I Can't Sit Through One More Meeting

Have you noticed we've become a sitting people? We grew up learning to sit in our seats at our desks and listen, and, to my way of thinking, we learned that lesson all too well. We sit a lot - in our cars, in front of our desks, in front of TV and movie screens, at sports and performance events, at meetings, at religious services, to name a few situations. In Body Odyssey: Lessons from the Bones and Belly, I rant about our sitting addiction in one of the early chapters. In particular, I talk about the plague of sitting that happens when we attend conferences. How many times have you gone to an all-day or several-day conference or convention and sat and sat while you listened? Still doing what the teacher said to do in first grade. More…