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Get Up!
- Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Richard Gilliland, Leigh Roche, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
From the codirector of the Mayo Clinic/Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and inventor of the treadmill desk comes a fascinating wake-up call about our sedentary lifestyle.
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 large. In Get Up!, health expert James A. Levine's original scientific research shows that today's chair-based world, where we no longer use our bodies as they evolved to be used, is having negativeconsequences on our health, and is a leading cause of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Over the decades, humans have moved from a primarily active lifestyle to one that is largely sedentary, and this change has reshaped every facet of our lives - from social interaction to classroom design. Levine shows how to throw off the shackles of inertia and reverse these negative trends through simple changes in our daily lives.
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- Rachy
- 02-10-21
The game changer every ‘sitter’ MUST READ!
We need more chair rebels in the world!
Levine does a brilliant job of PROVING what we ALL know but that which culture sustains
Levine you are my hero!!
Starting with he book over already!
Rachel Frances Thomson
Chair rebel
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-08-21
This is amazing
I loved every minute of this book and I'm planning to re-listen it again!!!! Extremely eye opening!
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- Ana Rita Reis
- 07-11-21
Surprisingly good!
Thought provoking book which I have thoroughly enjoyed and it did make me want to get up, great narration too.
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- Mr. Daniel Deeks
- 18-01-23
Great book
Definitely makes you think about your long term health. Funny in parts, however a lot of what’s said makes sense. Would recommend…
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- Chloe
- 21-01-23
Insightful, enjoyable and funny
Loved it, found it randomly and throughly enjoyed it. Especially for a work from home victim
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Fascinating and very true!
I’ve already recommended this book to my students to listen to or read. Having suffered the chair prison during lockdown I can attest that I have since been suffering from back and neck pain and I needed this to remind me to be proactive about to to help myself as well as ask for help from my employers as well as medical professionals so thank you for this. I wonder what life would be like if we all had more activity and less sitting in our lives!
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- Skeesk
- 09-09-21
The only book that has really changed my mind
I found this so good
I loved the mixture of a life story and unassailable (to me) scientific facts
I want everyone close to me to read it
Ive started watching everyone moving
And I take every opportunity to move more
I’m sure you will enjoy this
It’s funny too
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- Mario
- 30-06-23
Get Up! and listen to it
A must read for anyone working at desk! And also a very enjoyable book. The author uses wit and funny anecdotes to explain a super-important topic. Not only this book is a lot of fun. It will also explain to you why you don't feel as great as you could. This book told me why a standing desk didn't turn out an ultimate answer to my discomfort, encouraged me to move more while working and alternating between standing and sitting often. And made me crave an under-desk treadmill which I'm gonna eventually get.
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- ERV Scott
- 11-10-23
Totally brilliant
I think everyone should read this book, it’s an engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes sad and always fascinating insight into the research that gave us ‘sitting is the new smoking’ and a push towards active learning and activity in schools. It explains why desk jockeys have a hard time staying slim, and explains why some people don’t get fat even deliberately over fed. I listened to it in 2 days and found it difficult to put down. Why not go for a walk, clean the house or tidy the garden and listen to this at the same time?!
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- natalia
- 24-01-24
Many surprising facts
Learned a lot from this book, it’s changed the way I feel about sitting v standing - I now stand whenever I get the chance and feel better for it.
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