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Rethinking Sitting and Standing Desks: What New Research Says About Health Risks

As I write this, I am sitting at my motorized, adjustable-height (standing) desk. Early in my graduate career, I discovered the risks of sedentary behavior, to which it carved my research path. I learned that “sitting is the new smoking” and wrote several of my first BehaviorFit blogs. Hell, too much sitting became the impetus […]

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The Other Pandemic: Physical Inactivity

Physical Activity Recommendations, Sedentary Behavior

Parts of the world are opening back up again. People are getting vaccinated and others report feeling “pandemic fatigue” (Reicher & Drury, 2021) . They are tired of the new normal and are going back to the way things used to be. At this point, we are all well versed with the term — pandemic.

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Sitting is the New Smoking: Understand The Numbers Behind The Catchphrase

Sitting

Several years ago I came across many blog headlines that went something to the effect of “sitting is the new smoking.” Maybe you have read one or two (example 1, example 2). At first, those titles scared me out of my seat! I thought: I don’t smoke…but how can this be a thing?!?! I mean,

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CORRECTION! Exercise IS Everything! Why the RIGHT Exercise Fixes All-Day Sitting

Exercise, Sitting

In a previous article, I discussed that “Exercise Isn’t Everything.” The main point was this: even if you exercise, spending your day sitting is bad for your health and puts you at higher risk for preventable diseases (obesity, diabetes) and early death. So, I recommended moving more and sitting less throughout your work day. Because science

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Please Leave Your Office: The Danger of a Standing Desk

Sitting, Standing Desk, Work

Step away from the standing desk…I repeat away from the standing desk.

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Time to Pop Everyone’s Office Stability Balls

Sitting, Work

There is a trend for many of us in today’s world to make a living by “knowledge work”. We work at a computer, analyze trends, produce meaningful documents, and click send. Work in the modern office environment looks a lot different than what work looked like 100 years ago. There are only but a few

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The Top 15 Things I Learned from a Conference about Sitting!

Conference, Sitting

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted an entire conference devoted to sedentary behavior on Oct. 15 – 17, 2015. That’s right an entire conference dedicated to too much sitting! The conference discussed the latests trends in the measurement, assessment, and treatment of inactivity of our modernized world. Mainly researchers were present and conversations got nerdy,

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