The Results
For the 150,000 healthy people in the study (including those who didn’t exercise), there was a dose response relationship between more sitting and all-cause mortality. This simply means more sitting was associated with more mortality. The sitting mortality relationship was also blunted in the people who got any exercise during the week—a little bit of activity can stop some, but not all, of the negative effects of a lot of sitting.
I understand the importance behind this and the science seems solid, but short of ripping out the entire office and starting again I am not certain what most of us can do.
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Hey Chris,
I read somewhere that standing at work can extend your life by ten years so I told the girls at the local Westpac that, after they moved into their new building, as they now have to stand while serving you because they don’t have any chairs to sit on. They didn’t seem that convinced at the time.
I guess the solution, like Westpac, is to have standing rather sitting desks.
PS I wonder how those figures compare to countries that sit on the floor a lot ie: India?
PS I also saw a house that some one designed to exercise you…uneven floors etc. the opposite of making everything easy and comfortable.
Cheers
Bruce
I think one of the major banks has introduced portable desks that adjust in height to allow for standing in one of their corporate headquarters. I am having a seniors moment so cannot remember which one.
That blog deserves a standing ovulation. Sorry I meant ovation. Damn autocorrect.
Thought you’d have one of these in your office ???
http://www.fitnessmarket.com.au/shop/infiniti-treadmill-desk.html?gclid=CJ72weGSmrkCFcpfpQodJzgAJQ
I would be a bit worried about my fat arse bouncing the pc off the damned thing. Although I am seriously considering looking at lifting the height of my desks – just not certain how to go about it without major reno’s being involved.