DHis vocabulary is a good place to be straightforward: anyone who likes to work at a standing desk is abnormal. During his few vacations, he would also travel by bicycle, called “torture you”, and wear barefoot shoes at parties to train his foot muscles. Standing desks are a torture when used. Yes, after all, you have to work. In any case, researchers have now found that sedentary is not healthy, but not the new smoking — smoking is actually more deadly — and sedentary “is neither an addiction nor a danger to others,” Terry of the University of South Australia Boyle said.
He is the co-author of the study “Is sitting really a new smoker?” published in the American Journal of Public Health. However, it not only has power politics reasons, Sebastian Kurz, Steffen Seibert and the entire Hamburg tax authorities have been working on standing desks since at least 2013. The doctor recommends that at least a quarter of the working time should be spent standing. The president of the German Spine Association warned not to just sit down and wait for the remaining three quarters.
If we really sit down, please at least on a different basis: different tables and chairs, ordinary chairs or sometimes on exercise balls. Imagine the office of the German Spine Association in Buchholz, Nordheide, where there are two secretaries, a dozen empty chairs, and a fitness ball. “Because I no longer smoke, I try to sit as little as possible,” a colleague said. But she found that it was much easier to quit smoking than to start standing. Even if you have to.
