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Posted 12/12/2012 1:34 AM (GMT 0)
Are you sitting down?  Of course you are because you're on the computer.  I'm not.  I'm standing in my kitchen with our laptop on the counter because I've read too many articles about how sitting too much is so bad for our health.  nono     Well, here's another article.  If you get Readers' Digest, there's a short blurb in there this month, too, about how sitting down for hours is killing us.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57474678/why-sitting-all-day-is-killing-you/

Posted 12/29/2012 2:40 AM (GMT 0)
My girlfriend works at home with a desk allowing her to stand at the computer. Over the past year she has worked this to the point of not sitting at all during the day. Even though her eating and exercise habits are unchanged her weight has dropped from 190 to 132 lbs.

It sounds good for me too but I have seriously degenerated discs between my back vertebrae from years of heavy weight lifting and hitting thousands of golf balls. I cannot stand still for long.
Posted 12/29/2012 2:49 AM (GMT 0)
Wow! You're saying the only change in her habits is standing up using the computer? That's incredible! I wish a painless New Year 2013, BITW!
yeah
Posted 12/29/2012 3:01 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks!

Actually not sitting or lying down at all during the day is much harder than it sounds. It took her a couple of months to build up to standing the entire day. But going for walks and moving around is OK as long as not sitting.

Post Edited (BabeintheWoods) : 12/28/2012 9:23:19 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/29/2012 3:13 AM (GMT 0)
As the article says, if the position is static, it's bad, so those Beefeaters are really no better off. Being on your feet constantly may have its own problems of course. Shoes are important. I have read that sales clerks do better if they can raise one leg onto a small stool at times and can switch legs throughout their time behind the counter.

I can't imagine standing and not moving for long periods of time. Can't be good for the back, seems to me.
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