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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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:24PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:24PM (#645262) Journal

    The planet that says we're all of a sudden going to solve the world's hunger problem, cure all diseases, and just get along?

    Apparently you haven't noticed. We've made massive inroads on all those things. For example, global lifespan was 31 years [who.int] (slide 7) in 1900 to 72 years [worldbank.org] in 2015. Currently, the number of centenarians doubles every 13 years.

    As to getting along, the deaths per capita from wars is considerably lower than it's been in centuries and trending lower. The developed world in particular has remarkably few deaths from war with no war between two such countries since the end of the Second World War.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:53PM (#645275) Journal

    At birth is a different statistic than we were discussing as we were discussing average life expectancy for the world's population as it exists. Though, it's encouraging that the average life expectancy at birth is increasing.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 28 2018, @06:17PM (#645284) Journal
      Sure, but it's a related statistic that shows improvement. While I don't consider it highly likely, there is still a chance that medicine will be revolutionized in the near future to enable people to have much longer life spans so that indeed, most people living now will live longer than a century.
      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:33PM

        by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:33PM (#645412) Journal

        Whether or not we have a medical revolution / invention that would allow that. It's not likely that it would trickle down to the more mature population of the world' poor people in time to produce those kinds of results. As far as steadily increasing life expectancy, sure that sounds possible.

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        Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"