Over the previous few years, many have hopped on the standing desk development to advertise well being within the office or workplace, however is it actually higher for you?
Over the previous few years, many workplaces and other people have hopped on the standing desk development to advertise well being within the office or workplace.
But it seems having a standing desk isn’t actually all it’s stood as much as be.
“We’ve all heard about how dangerous being sedentary is to our well being, and we consider sedentary as, you realize, sitting or laying down,” Dr. Angela Hsu stated.
The internist and geriatrician with Kaiser Permanente talked with WTOP concerning the new study, which would appear to show standing isn’t any better than sitting in terms of your well being.
“They had greater than 80,000 sufferers put on accelerometers,” Hsu stated of the examine, which was printed within the Oxford Academic International Journal of Epidemiology.
What researchers discovered, she stated, is that being stationary whereas standing versus sitting had no actual distinction when it got here to the cardiovascular well being of sufferers.
But that’s not even essentially the most startling discovering.
“Standing with out motion will not be doing that a lot better for us, and actually, is likely to be having different well being dangers related, like getting leg swelling and varicose veins, and issues like that,” Hsu instructed WTOP.
She stated the examine is affirmation that there’s no silver bullet, or secret well being hack, in terms of your coronary heart well being — or your well being generally.
“The key to bettering your cardiovascular outcomes and combating the consequences of sedentary life is to be energetic and really transferring, and never simply standing,” she stated.
Hsu stated she, and plenty of within the medical group, is aware of it may be arduous in the course of the workday, however there are hacks you’ll be able to attempt to keep energetic.
“Some individuals will do strolling conferences,” she stated. “If you’ll be able to’t do strolling conferences, perhaps go for a stroll between your conferences. If you’re working from residence, go exterior for a bit of bit in between, as a result of it’s a must to get that blood flowing. That’s the important thing.”
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