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posted by mrpg on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the dont-care-I-work-in-a-vacuum dept.

There's a better way to use a standing desk

[...] some research suggests that even regular exercise—as much as 60 minutes per day—is not enough to offset the effects of sedentary workdays.

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.

Welcome to medical science.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:53AM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:53AM (#645005)

    Fuck it, I'm getting a bed at work.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:57AM (#645007)

    Easier for your Corporate Overlords to fuck you up the ass, that is!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @07:05AM (#645009)
    Heck get a hospital bed with an anti-bedsore mattress. You can recline it, raise or lower it and some hospital beds aren't much more expensive than some fancy but far less comfortable office chairs.
  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:07PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:07PM (#645125) Journal
    Apparently the best posture is reclining, much as you do with a deck chair. You can buy desks with a place to mount a flat-screen monitor so that it's angled down towards you when you look up at about a 45 degree angle for this purpose. They're not popular, because most companies don't like their employees to look comfortable when they're supposed to look as if they're working.
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