Sitting is dangerous for your health

The average worker spends over five hours and 40 minutes sitting at their job every day and a new study says it’s bad for your health, with some claiming the long-term effects of sitting can be as bad as smoking.

Dr. Michael Jensen, from the Mayo Clinic, joined KDKA Radio’s Larry Richert and John Shumway […]

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Sitting all day is bad for your health! What to do about it.

Don’t just sit there. Really

From the LA Times:

The chair is out to kill us,’ a Mayo doctor says. Several studies point to the health risks of too much sitting.

“Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us,” says Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of medicine and director of women’s health at the […]

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Sitting down can cause long term damage to your health

A study of Australian office workers in the journal Human Factors in 2009 found that people perform best at computer tasks when sitting. Standing reduced their work-rate slightly — while walking around while working had an even worse impact.

Asking staff to swap their chairs for stability balls does not help, either. These are designed […]

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Treadmill Workstation still getting press around the world

Save yourself from ‘sitting disease’… use a stand up desk (which comes with built in treadmill) ‘Over the last 150 years, we’ve become chair-imprisoned. We are behind a screen all day at work. We are in a car or bus getting to and from work. And in the evening, we are in a chair watching television or surfing the Internet,’ Dr Levine said. ‘We’ve gone from being on our legs all day to being on our bottoms all day.’ […]

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Sitting can be lethal, any movement counts

Why do some people who consume the same amount of food as others gain more weight? […]

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Using a pedometer to see how far you are walking

Keeping track of steps using a pedometer while using a treadmill desk workstation […]

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Treadmill Weight Loss Tips, can you lose more weight using a treadmill?

These treadmill weight loss tips are a great way to help you shed a few pounds and shape up. A treadmill is designed for the most natural form of exercise which is walking. You don’t need any special skills to use these machines because if you can walk, you can exercise on a treadmill.

Treadmill […]

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Media Sightings for our blog!

“I Put In 5 Miles at the Office” (New York Times) Treadmill desk facilitates working and working out (phillyburbs.com) Desk treadmill allows users to do their work while getting a workout (Detroit Free Press)

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Working while walking on my treadmill desk progress report

I have had this treadmill desk for a few months now and I have not used it as much as I planned. But wait, I have a good excuse. I have sciatica. I had to stop running and speed walking with my friends because it was kicking up something bad. I get a steroid shot […]

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Got a mention in the New York Times!

Well, I started this blog about 3 months ago. I had it going pretty well and then I got hacked and I kept meaning to repost all my work and I didn’t.

So imagine my surprise when I am perusing a gossip website, (dlisted) under the Sept 23rd Tuesday, and he has treadmill workstations for […]

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