Don't take it sitting down

摘要

Some of my former engineering colleagues and I are overweight. Yet there we were at the Beta Bar gobbling high-calorie lunches: loaded hamburgers, fries, and pints of full-flavored Old Rottslager, brewed directly from the Blightsburg River. (There's no such thing as Old Rottslager Light.)All of us would like to shed some pounds despite our lunches, and our conversation turned to sitting, which is deemed a chief cause of overweight."Sit all day and you don't burn the calories you ate," said Jeff, a member of our group. "Yet all of us have sit-down jobs. As a reactor theorist, I ponder questions of neutron spin and collision density all day at my desk."