Tag: best standing desks

Standing Desk Buyer’s Guide – Desks for all kinds of offices, chairs for all kinds of butts

When standing desks entered the mainstream consciousness a decade or so ago, sitting was quickly derided as “the new smoking”. However, scientific support for these claims is flimsy at best. We know that too much sitting is bad, and we also know that standing desks aren’t a one-shot cure. Too much sitting increases heart failure risk and disability…
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Don’t just sit there, stand up!

We sit at work. We sit in our cars. We sit at home. And when we’re done sitting, we lay down and go to sleep! But new research is painting an increasingly terrifying picture, correlating hours spent sitting with heart attacks, back pain, obesity, and diabetes. The American Cancer Society found that women who sat…
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