QUIZ: Is your chair harming your health?

Are you a chair addict?

1. Do you work seated on a chair? (Yes/No)

2. Have you ever shopped on the Internet?

3. Do you watch TV sitting for one hour a day or more?

4. Do you ever eat while watching TV or in the car?

5. Have you ever Internet dated?

6. Do you own a recliner?

7. If you go to a party, do you seek out a chair?

8. Look at your sofa. Does it have an imprint of your buttocks?

9. Do you spend more time with friends, electronically than in real life?

10. Have you ever fantasized about or engaged in sexual intercourse while in a chair?

Scoring

Give yourself 1 point for each yes answer.

0: Close the book and give it to a friend

1-2: Chair pre-addict

3-5: Chair addict

6-8: Chair imprisoned

9-10: Chairaholic

From Get Up! by James A. Levine. Copyright © 2014 by the author and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press, LLC.