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Originally Posted by freedogger
This is easily fixed by walking or biking to the office and preferring the stairs over the elevator. Too far to the office? Drive and park in a cheap lot and walk the last X kilometres. Going to the gym or having a sport for a hobby is another option. The amount of exercise needed to extend your functional years isn't nearly as much as a real physical job requires. In fact, the hard-core physical jobs typically lead to disability of some kind.
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Except it isn't. Doing all those things will certainly help, but it doesn't compare to being active and constantly moving around throughout the day.
I have such a job, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. You just feel so much better at the end of the day compared to sitting at a desk.
And overwhelming amount of people who have desk jobs have back problems. Maybe they still are functional, but to a large degree they don't have a good quality of life physically. Nevermind that many are overweight and get very little exercise.
You can keep from being overweight from eating right, but you can't fix the back problems that arise from sitting all day.