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Originally Posted by Azure

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.

Seconded, there was actually an article in Men's Health about that:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39523298...y-killing-you/

Do you lead an active lifestyle or a sedentary one? The question is simple, but the answer may not be as obvious as you think. Let's say, for example, you're a busy guy who works 60 hours a week at a desk job but who still manages to find time for five 45-minute bouts of exercise. Most experts would label you as active. (Put your body to the test: 10 standards to assess your fitness level.) But Marc Hamilton, Ph.D., has another name for you: couch potato. Perhaps "exercising couch potato" would be more accurate, but Hamilton, a physiologist and professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, would still classify you as sedentary. "People tend to view physical activity on a single continuum," he says. "On the far side, you have a person who exercises a lot; on the other, a person who doesn't exercise at all. However, they're not necessarily polar opposites."