Stand Up While You Read This! - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-while-you-read-this/?em

Your chair is your enemy. It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.

Conversely, a study of people who sit for many hours found that those who took frequent small breaks — standing up to stretch or walk down the corridor — had smaller waists and better profiles for sugar and fat metabolism than those who did their sitting in long, uninterrupted chunks.

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Man, I need to try a standing desk

Well I am screwed...

"Much of the perception about what makes for healthy and comfortable sitting has come from the chair industry." / "Chaise longues are good options."

Meet public enemy No. 1 in today's workplace.

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