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There have been a few recent studies coming out that have claimed/proven that medium-to-long-term periods of sitting causes serious damage to one's health. How does this happen? What sort of damage is it? Is there less damage by simply laying down instead of sitting? Is it reversible?

by /u/greenday5494 in /r/askscience

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