The headlines have been coming thick and fast: 'Sitting is killing you', 'Sitting is the new smoking', The war on sitting'. In the ever-changing landscape of health hazards, sitting is the new villain - as a Time magazine gif portrays it, a grim reaper creeping up behind you to lop your head off even as you idly hit 'like' on Facebook posts.
Fitness experts believe the war on sitting can be fought with a simple weapon: by standing more. Of course, ideally all humans should do their jobs while moving around, but since that is not a possible solution in a knowledge economy, the next-best alternative is to stand as much as you can. Or so say the advocates of the 'stand at work' culture, which is slowly filtering into India.
Fitness experts believe the war on sitting can be fought with a simple weapon: by standing more. Of course, ideally all humans should do their jobs while moving around, but since that is not a possible solution in a knowledge economy, the next-best alternative is to stand as much as you can. Or so say the advocates of the 'stand at work' culture, which is slowly filtering into India.
Source:-The Times of India
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