There’s a better way to use a standing desk

Subject: There’s a better way to use a standing desk Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:22 pm

A standing desk, seems like a great way to combat this problem, since it’s unlikely that computer use will decrease anytime soon. But turns out that when you do the opposite of sitting—standing for incredibly long periods of the day—well, that’s bad for you, too. A highly-cited study out last year in the Journal of Epidemiology on 7,000 office workers found that, “Occupations involving predominantly standing were associated with an approximately 2-fold risk of heart disease compared with occupations involving predominantly sitting.”

Alan Taylor, a physiology expert at Nottingham University, told the Chicago Tribune that the expansion and popularity of standing desks has been largely driven not by scientific evidence, but rather by popularity and profit.

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The point is that, just like with dieting, completely replacing one activity with another (or one food group with another) doesn’t often bode well for good health. Perhaps the old adage of everything in moderation applies here, too. But before we can actively advocate for moderation, we must better understand the physiological effects of that sitting/standing/walking combo. In that same large study done last year, researchers also concluded that the risk of cardiovascular disease with occupations combining sitting, standing, and walking differed between men and women. For men, this combo lowered cardiovascular risk. But for women, it elevated it.

Even so, Taylor told the Tribune, it’s probably best if workers rely on...

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https://www.longroom.com/discussion/910126/there-s-a-better-way-to-use-a-standing-desk

There’s a better way to use a standing desk

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There’s a better way to use a standing desk

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