Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Standing May Be as Bad or Worse than Sitting

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Standing May Be as Bad or Worse than Sitting | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 72 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:10AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:10AM (#645049) Journal

    Don't forget the coffee (one before, one after smoke break), lunch, and also toilet breaks.

    With regret, I can't anymore. A single coffee for me in the morning at home. As a result, I rarely need toilet breaks at the office.

    Take away time spent in meetings,

    I don't have that many meetings at the office as I'd like - short q/a on the internal IM usually do the trick.
    So that I needed to find something to do instead, this explains my commenting activity on S/N. (grin)

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:48AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:48AM (#645063) Journal

    Weirdly, my work has usually meant organisijng, tunning, and wrangling the right people to attend meetings.
    Sometimes, I've had jobs where, if I'm not in a meeting or teleconference, I'm not working.
    If i have a laptop, then so much the better (for my SN post count, anyway)

    --
    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:22AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:22AM (#645074) Journal

      Weirdly, my work has usually meant organisijng, tunning, and wrangling the right people to attend meetings.

      Fortunately, in my current position, I no longer have to do this - I grew tired in my prev ones doing it.

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford