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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:48AM
If you don't have a mortgage on it and a modicum income (for those property taxes), theoretically, one can "drop off the grid" and live by subsistence farming. Not sustainable for entire populations, but not impossible.
Worked (and still works) well in Russia [wikipedia.org]. It will work (at a small scale) in US too - there are already a number of farmlets in private (non-corporate) property with farmers old enough not to be able to run them commercially; and yet, the city-dwellers aren't starving (i.e. the rest of the industrial-style agriculture can feed them).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford