Tag: standing desk

Improving Your Health by Ditching Desks and Chairs

If you make this mistake for one hour, you decrease your life expectancy by two hours—that means doing this is far more hazardous than smoking, which reduces your life expectancy by 11 minutes for every one cigarette smoked. But there’s an easy way to mitigate the risk. STORY AT-A-GLANCE For every hour you sit down,…


Take a Stand for Better Health

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the already largely sedentary U.S. population moved even less. In the United States, daily steps plunged 15 percent within 15 days of the pandemic declaration, according to researchers at the University of California–San Francisco, and the situation didn’t improve. With more people working from home, the tendency to sit at a computer…