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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: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:39PM
One of my great-uncles did quit his day job and farmed in his retirement, he was semi-mechanized with an antique tractor he rebuilt over the years and he had a lot of fun, but I do see the statistics proven out where each mechanized industrial era farmer feeds 100 non-farming civilians. He would drive thru town on errands and leave giant trash bags full of corn at our door because he simply had too much to get rid of it all in the good years.
Now you sell dozens of people's annual food budget to multiple layers of very expensive middlemen and they get rich and the farmer gets $100, if they're lucky. Meanwhile on the other end, a couple dozen people's annual food budget means Joe six pack consumer is paying maybe fifty grand to the same multiple layers of expensive middlemen in total for that food. But there are alternatives.
My wife keeps getting involved in CSA shares mostly because of our paleo-ish diet means lots of vegetable consumption and based on a back of the envelope calculation our farmers seem to be doing pretty well. I would guesstimate we pay $500 for about 1000 pounds of organic produce on our side, and their revenue on their side from a couple hundred customers is pretty impressive sounding. Of course they might have an insane mortage on the farm, hard to say, if they own it out right then they must be getting rich. Logistics can be annoying and there's a lot of questions like what do I do with ten pounds of carrots every week? Winter is also hard to go from getting a big crate for "free" (Well, $500 in the spring) to having to pay a freaking dollar for each bell pepper at the supermarket.
Can do the same thing buying a cow and butchering service direct while screwing the wholesaler(s) and supermarket out of a lot of profit. Then again you need a big freezer. Then again I already have one anyway for costco and stocking up on sale. Grilling season is coming up and I need to buy another cow.