Sitting On Your Butt Will Kill You !

One of the theoretical foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine are the Statements Of Fact that all students are obligated to know and understand.  These Statements of Facts are the building blocks that practitioners use to construct
logically consistent deductions or inferences the help in diagnosis and patient treatment.

I ran across the informative illustration that I have linked to below and it reminded me of a Statement of Fact that I encountered in my first year of schooling.

Prolonged sitting damages the flesh. The flesh is governed by the Spleen in 5 phase theory. Prolonged sitting results in too much fat and not enough muscle.   When sitting, the qi and blood are not stirred.  Therefore, dampness and turbidity collect and accumulate, eventually congealing into phlegm and fat.

Sitting Will Kill You !!