It’s Refill Friday: Focal, a new upright workstation, aims to cure sitting disease | National Business Furniture. It’s Friday, and at the NBF Water Cooler, that means that it’s time to put a new water jug on the dispenser. Loosely translated, that means that it’s a good day to share a link and refresh our thinking with some good ideas. Furniture designers and manufacturers are responding to growing evidence that we need an alternative to sitting for hours at a stretch. Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan shares one idea called the Focal. The views expressed by contributors to the NBF Water Cooler are their own, and do not reflect the viewpoint of National Business Furniture and its affiliates.
Like this: Like Loading... Are you sitting comfortably? Why you need to get moving « Changeboard Blog. Are you sitting comfortably? Chances are the answer is yes. I certainly am as I write this. I have a very nice business chair in my home office. Most employers are super-hot on ergonomics and will provide you with an expensive chair with a five-point tip base and all kinds of adjustment options that most of us will never quite get to grips with. Are you sitting properly like a Lucy Clayton model, with your feet flat on floor as you read? Why not? The office chair: modern society killer? Company intranets are awash with advice on how to adjust workstations including keyboards, foot rests, monitor heights and, of course, the chair itself.
According to this latest study published in the Lancet to coincide with the Olympics, and widely reported in the press, sedentary lifestyles are responsible for as many deaths as smoking. Even those of us with a gym membership needn’t be too smug – if you’re sitting in a chair most of the working day, then you’re doing damage. Powered By DT Author Box.
Dangers of Sitting Too Much - How to Ward Off Sitting Disease. When it comes to our health, experts say it’s time for us to take a stand… literally. If you spend a good part of your day sitting down, the thought has probably already crossed your mind that all that time on your gluteus maximus can't be doing your body any favors. As it turns out, research says you're right. But what you may not realize is that sitting for prolonged periods can be downright deadly. It's been dubbed "sitting disease," and you don't have to be Homer Simpson, cradling a bowl of potato chips in your armchair, to be at risk. When you sit back and think about it (but not for too long), most of us are already busy logging loads of chair time: at our computers, behind the steering wheel, and at our desks at our jobs and school.
In a brave new world of emails, video games, eight-hour-plus workdays, backed-up commutes, and long-distance hauls, scientists are just beginning to explore what this "sitting-in-motion" lifestyle means to our health. And Dr. Reducing our risk. Nevermind the cigarettes, it’s all this sitting that’s killing us: Andrew Coyne. This week the British medical journal The Lancet published a new series of studies on the health consequences of physical inactivity.
The figures are staggering. They show physical inactivity is responsible for as much as 10% of the “burden of disease” (years of life lost to mortality or disability) from illnesses as diverse as colon cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and coronary heart disease. All told, physical inactivity is now the fourth leading cause of death around the world. More than 5.3 million people die of it every year, accounting for nearly one death in ten. That’s more than die from smoking. It’s more than die from all injuries combined (traffic accidents claim a mere 1.2 million lives annually). Yet while these have been the focus of massive campaigns aimed at their eradication, inactivity has been largely ignored. We should be clear what we are really talking about here. That’s not just my opinion. In short, sitting kills. We sit in cubicles, for hours at a time. Postmedia News. How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body and How You Can Counteract It. As seen on TV. Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Obesity Panacea, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed.
Also, don't forget to like us on Facebook! The past few months have been great for media coverage of sedentary behaviour, and I’ve been fortunate to be on the receiving end of a few interviews. I thought it would be fun to put them up here on the blog, so today I have 4 different clips – 2 video and 2 audio (email subscribers can view the videos by clicking on the title of today’s email). The first video clip is from an interview with CTV News Channel, which I did in early December. CTV News Channel Interview from Travis Saunders on Vimeo. The next two clips come from my visit to New Brunswick earlier this month. Below are two reports (one from CBC Radio, and one from CBC TV) that came out the day of the talk, which may be of interest to those of you interested in sedentary behaviour. Of note, the CBC TV piece was actually picked up and re-aired on CNN. Travis. World’s First Systematic Review On Sedentary Behaviour & Health in School-Aged Children.
Hello there! If you enjoy the content on Obesity Panacea, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Also, don't forget to like us on Facebook! Some exciting news this week - the world’s first systematic review on the relationship between sedentary behaviour and health in school-aged children has just been published online in the International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity. I am one of 8 authors on the review (nestled nicely in the middle), which was created to inform the Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines, released earlier this year. What did we do? The review looked at the following broadly defined health indicators: body composition, fitness, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, self-esteem, pro-social behaviour and academic achievement.
What did we find? In general, the more sedentary behaviour that a child accumulates, the worse their health. Here is what we found more specifically for each outcome. Body Composition: Fitness: Can sitting too much kill you? | Guest Blog. We all know that physical activity is important for good health—regardless of your age, gender or body weight, living an active lifestyle can improve your quality of life and dramatically reduce your risk of death and disease. But even if you are meeting current physical activity guidelines by exercising for one hour per day (something few Americans manage on a consistent basis), that leaves 15 to 16 hours per day when you are not being active. Does it matter how you spend those hours, which account for more than 90% of your day? For example, does it matter whether you spend those 16 hours sitting on your butt, versus standing or walking at a leisurely pace? Fortunately or unfortunately, new evidence suggests that it does matter, and in a big way.
What is sedentary behavior? Before we go any further, it’s important that we define the term "sedentary behavior". Now that we know what sedentary behavior is, let’s look at its relationship with health risk. Epidemiological Evidence Mechanisms.