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It comes from standing at work all day.
To top it off, someone my weight could burn about 310 more calories a day just by standing at work.
Moreover, these studies tend to focus only on the positive effects of standing at work and the negative effects of sitting.
In fact, I was enjoying standing at work so much that even when I worked from home, I found myself yearning for a stand-up desk.
Yet the more I read about the benefits of standing at work — a lower risk of obesity, cancer and death and as well as a boost in mood and alertness — the more I wanted a stand-up desk.
A headline in the Independent today has proclaimed that standing at work is "as unhealthy as a cigarette a day", citing a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Alternating between sitting and standing at your work station.
Standing at the work desk or sitting on floor, the women in bare hands performed varieties of tasks with abundant use of ice-cold chlorinated water.
Standing at his work station, he reads through a job ticket from a worker who just lost his cell phone.
He rose early and spent mornings at work, standing at his typewriter wearing a favorite pair of oversized moccasins.
As it turns out, you must check your posture constantly and move around, whether you sit or stand at work, because standing all day can be as bad as prolonged sitting.
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