
Get Up!
Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It
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James A. Levine
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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Entertaining and informative, sometimes meandering
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Good Motivation to Move More
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Very informative and great voice.
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Succinct, Inspirational and Awkward Cadence
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Easy, actionable advice!
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Fascinating topic
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Get Up For New Life
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Entertaining and informative.
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What made the experience of listening to Get Up! the most enjoyable?
The book had great information and research to support it. It was well told and motivated me to try to get out of my chair.What other book might you compare Get Up! to and why?
Spark. Emphasizes the importance of activity for mental and physical health.What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
Easy to understand. Lots of character to his voice. Could be funny and serious.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Attack of the Killer ChairsAny additional comments?
NopeReally interesting. Well written and well read.
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I restarted the book in the morning and could not put it down till it was done. The statistics were presented in an enlightening fashion. The amount of dedication to keeping children and adults healthy, happy, and enjoying life was demonstrated time and time again by this author’s experiments and data in proving chairs are a real life danger to our health and lifespan!
If you find yourself bored with the first one or two chapters skip them, but don’t stop listening, it can literally save your life.
I wasn’t going to finish this book
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