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Sitting all day, done properly
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Your eyes are not tired. They are dry.
Burning, gritty, blurry by mid-afternoon. Two mechanisms cause almost all of it, and neither one is blue light.
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You are squinting at the light behind you
Screen brightness gets all the blame and it is rarely the problem. What tires your eyes is the difference between the screen and everything around it.
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Your head does not weigh 27 kilos when you look down
The number comes from a computer model, not a scale. The fixation on head angle has buried the thing that actually predicts whether your neck hurts by 5pm.
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Your afternoon headache probably starts at your jaw
The band-around-the-head headache that arrives after lunch is rarely about your eyes or your screen. It is usually clenching, and you will not catch yourself doing it.
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Sitting is not the new smoking, and the slogan cost people years
The comparison is nonsense, but the panic it caused sent everyone shopping for chairs when the actual problem was that they stopped moving.
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Your wrist rest is probably making it worse
Wrist pain from a mouse usually starts at the shoulder, and the pad sold to fix it holds your hand in the position that causes the problem.
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