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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Our love affair with the chair has horrible consequences.
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Standing in meetings offers the opportunity to sit less and move more.
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Too much sitting over the course of a day is not healthy — let’s be clear. And as I’ve written before, exercise is the closest thing to a wonder drug. Few things provide such a health benefit.
But standing is not exercise. Many health groups recommend that people at work take frequent walking breaks. Replacing sitting with standing does not fulfill that recommendation and may even mislead people into thinking they’re doing enough activity.
Sit-stand desks are not exactly inexpensive, but like many things in life, they’re fine if you like them. And if it helps alleviate some back and neck pain, so much the better. It’s just that most people probably don’t need them.
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Desks that can be adjusted for sitting or standing may help workers stand more, improving health and job performance, a new study says.
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For Nellie Bowles, who writes about tech culture for The Times, the most crucial tech tool for doing work isn’t portable. But it keeps her on her toes.
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Moderate exercise does different things to the body than incidental activities like standing up.
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The less sitting or lying down you do during the day, the better your chances for living a healthy life.
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We knew sitting too much was bad for the body. Now we know it’s bad for the brain.
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(2018). A detailed description of the short-term musculoskeletal and cognitive effects of prolonged standing for office computer work. Ergonomics. Ahead of Print.