What’s the point of a standing desk? Well, if you want to improve your health and well-being, there’s a simple thing you can ...

If you work at a desk, you may find it difficult to stay active throughout the day. After all, a sedentary job can often mean sitting for upwards of eight hours at a time. If you've been looking for a ...

Long days working from home, hunched over multiple screens, leave us little opportunity to move our muscles. Fight back with these simple exercises. We knew sitting all day was not a healthy lifestyle ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. If you have a desk job, you know it’s all too easy to get stuck in your seat for hours. Before you know it, it’s five p.m., and you’ve ...

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As medical research about the health dangers of prolonged sitting has poured in over the past few years, standing desks have emerged as a valuable workplace perk. The 2018 Employee Benefits Survey ...

With the advent of the standing desk, posture pro tips, and even a new study that suggests sitting is the new smoking, there’s a plethora of information that confirms spending hours upon hours in a ...

Evidence of health damage from sitting has been growing in recent years. — -- The dangers of sitting for long stretches of time have come into focus in recent years, with the sedentary act ...

We know that physical activity is good for us and that being sedentary is not. Some have extrapolated this to mean that sitting, in general, is something to be avoided, even at work. Perhaps as a ...

Office workers just can't seem to win when it comes to circumventing the consequences of being bound to a desk day in and day out. For a while there, we all thought that standing desks were the ...

You’ve heard the warnings: sitting will kill you. Studies have connected being sedentary for prolonged periods of time with everything from increased risk of breast and colon cancer (make sure you ...