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Can spending less time sitting down add years to life?
Limiting the time we spend sitting to just three hours a day could add an extra two years to our life expectancy, scientists calculate. A growing body of evidence suggests the more time we spend sitting, the less healthy we may be. Several studies have linked sitting and television viewing to conditions like diabetes and heart disease as well as an increased overall risk of death. Read...
Read MoreWorld’s Easiest Way to Be Much Healthier: Stand Up
Standing up more is scientifically proven to have huge health benefits, but in our digital world it’s not as simple as it sounds. Here’s how to make the switch to an upright workday. You can feel exactly how crappy sitting all day makes you feel at the end of each workday. (Though you may be shocked to learn that being a regular gym-goer doesn’t protect you from the harmful effects of all that sitting.) So why don’t more of us actually make this move, especially entrepreneurs who are fully in control of how they work? Simply put, it’s a bit daunting. What equipment will you need? Where do you get it and at what cost? Won’t it make...
Read MoreSitting less may extend American lives
American adults may boost their life expectancy by two years by sitting for fewer than three hours a day, researchers said Tuesday, while admitting this was a tough task. ”On the other hand, there are many strategies to reduce sitting time, such as standing more at work using a standing desk or treadmill desk, having walking meetings, going to see someone down the hall rather than emailing them etc.” “We now have some physiological studies showing that when you are sitting, your leg muscles (the largest in the body) are completely inactive, which causes problems with how you handle your blood sugar and how you handle cholesterol,” “The...
Read MoreSitting Down Can Send You to an Early Grave
Sitting at work is a recent fad, as well. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, office workers such as clerks, accountants and managers mostly stood. Sitting was equated with slacking. Until the late Middle Ages in Europe, the only people to sit on chairs were high-rankers such as kings and bishops. At ceremonial occasions, seats showed they were above anyone else in the room. Chairs with backs only became available to the affluent in Europe around the 13th century, and it was not until the 16th century that they became common. Until then, the chest, bench or stool were the everyday seats. Read More…...
Read MoreTaking a Stand for Office Ergonomics
The health studies that conclude that people should sit less, and get up and move around more, have always struck me as fitting into the “well, duh” category. Suppose you stick to a five-times-a-week gym regimen, as I do, and have put in a lifetime of hard cardio exercise, and have a resting heart rate that’s a significant fraction below the norm. That doesn’t inoculate you, apparently, from the perils of sitting. Read...
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