“...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays” ShouldDoneScienceSufferingPoorParticularExerciseDiseaseWorkersIllHarmHolidayChairsAssociationAccumulationTailorsInactivitySedentaryIll HealthPoor HealthCobblers Author:Bernardino Ramazzini
“[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.” WayBodyRunningScienceCertainMovementParticularExerciseDiseaseWorkersAffectionAriseExcessHarvestBentLimbsUnnaturalPostureMorbidStoops Author:Bernardino Ramazzini
