How many hours a day do you sit? For how many years have you been doing that? Why?
What effect is this much sitting having on your body?
Widespread and culturally enforced sedentarism is a relatively recent phenomenon, at the evolutionary scale, and a mounting volume of research since the 1950s consistently shows that "too much sitting" is – big surprise – bad for our health.
How so? First time filmmaker E.J. Rosen explores this question in interviews with sedentary behavior researchers, endocrinologists, ergonomic specialists, chair designers, and school teachers. She adds another thesis to be explored in the arena; does excessive, school-enforced sitting train kids into a state of dulled awareness against important physiological signals? Are we training ourselves into ill-health? In a harm reduction model in the current cultural system, what can we do differently? How many hours a day do you sit?
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