Be Healthy. Use a Stand Up Desk
Standing has been repeatedly shown to be much healthier than sitting for extended periods of time. Sitting is a lethargic position – it decreases caloric consumption, increases lethargy, impedes circulation and can cause mental problems like frustration, inability to focus, and a shortened attention span. Sitting makes people prone to longer-term, serious health ailments such as high cholesterol, increased body mass index, lung blood clots, diabetes, and heart disease. Sitting decreases your metabolic rate, which causes you to burn fewer calories and hence leads to obesity, and a fatter body image. Sitting more than six hours per day has been shown to increase the risk of death in women by 37% (by 17% in men). Overall, sitting for more than a quarter of the day makes you 18% more likely to die from diabetes, heart disease or obesity.
The general consensus in the medical world is that during the day, humans should spend more time standing and moving around then they do sitting. Unfortunately, those of us with desk-jobs are “forced” to spend 8+ hrs/day at the office. The good news is that it’s time to break the myth that desk work must be done from the seated position. Using a stand up desk is the perfect way to free yourself from spending unhealthy amounts of time sitting. Standing (rather than sitting) during the typical eight hour workday has been shown to burn an extra three hundred plus calories! This is a great start towards a weight loss or weight maintenance plan. By facilitating blood flow and movement, standing can increase your natural energy, focus, alertness and concentration. Standing can also tone your physique, improve your posture, and decrease back pain associate with hunching over materials while seated.
There are many types of standing desks on the market. It can take some time to adjust your work environment from a “seated orientation” to a “standing orientation.” To reap the benefits of proper posture while standing, it is important to elevate your key materials to a comfortable height. If you spend a lot of time on a computer, make sure that your stand up desk can elevate screens to eye-level so you are not hunching. Standing more during the day can cause some leg fatigue, especially if you are not used to physical exercise or don’t have the leg muscles of an Olympic athlete. To help alleviate leg stress, it is important to wear comfortable, cushioning shoes. A cushioned floor mat or series of floor tiles can also take stress off your lower limbs.
Standing desks are a great way to improve your health without thinking! Just standing most of the time during the day can have similar health benefits to going to a gym on a regular basis. Making the switch from a seated desk to a stand up desk does not have to be expensive or time consuming. Thanks to the health and productivity benefits, it’s well worth the time to investigate the time to learn how a stand up desk could benefit your work environment and overall health.
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