How to pronounce "tush"

Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

What you're doing,

right now, at this very moment,

is killing you.

More than cars or the Internet

or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

the technology you're using the most almost every day

is this, your tush.

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

we don't even question how much we're doing it,

and because everyone else is doing it,

it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay.

In that way, sitting has become

the smoking of our generation.

Of course there's health consequences to this,

scary ones, besides the waist.

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity],

Ten percent in fact, on both of those.