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Sep 2014
45m 9s

How To Stop Sitting From Killing You: Th...

BEN GREENFIELD
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I've got one problem with the whole "" movement. There's a lack of practical solutions for how to fix what happens to your body when you sit, how to structure your workday to minimize the damage of sitting, and how to make your body bulletproof to the... 
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