Teacher-butt

In my history as a student and later confirmed as a teacher, I began to notice something scary that seemed to happen to teachers that were not very active in the class room (sat on a stool or at their desk all day). I called the phenomenon "teacher-butt".

This condition has crept into other professions now: computer users, secretaries, professional video game players, etc. The more you sit, the fatter you get. Doctors used to say that people needed to just add a regiment of daily exercise (walking, jogging, gardening, etc.) and because you are burning calories you will begin to lose weight.

Scientists at the University of Missouri (Go Tigers!) have new information.

...work shows that exercise alone won't get the job done. We have to pay more attention to what's happening when we aren't in the gym, because the body's ability to dispose of fat virtually shuts down, he says, at least if we're sitting down.

Read the article. Should you "putter" more in your life?