Office Chairs are Killing Us!
source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm
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If you're reading this article sitting down—the position we all hold more than any other, for an average of 8.9 hours a day—stop and take stock of how your body feels. Is there an ache in your lower back? A light numbness in your rear and lower thigh? Are you feeling a little down?
These symptoms are all normal, and they're not good. They may well be caused by doing precisely what you're doing—sitting. New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging toward a startling conclusion:
Sitting is a public-health risk. And exercising doesn't offset it.
...more at link
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm
These symptoms are all normal, and they're not good. They may well be caused by doing precisely what you're doing—sitting. New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging toward a startling conclusion:
Sitting is a public-health risk. And exercising doesn't offset it.
...more at link
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm
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teachdworld
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Okay so from now on I will work standing up. So that would be more than 8 hours of standing. Would that make me healthy???=)
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teachdworld
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frank_runyeon
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teachdworld:
You could give your self the option... with GeekDesk!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/technology/personaltech/22basics.html
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frank_runyeon
