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Anyone have some links to studies that show sitting in a chair at your desk is bad for your health?

Someone the other day said that he "heard" that sitting in a chair all day long for years is just as bad for your health as smoking. Not sure I get the correlation, but surely we have enough data points to have several credible studies.

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Check out http://juststand.org/. That (and talking with colleagues who stand at their desk every day) motivated me to try standing.

Thanks to Fog Creek providing adjustable-height desks for every employee, this was really easy to do. I started with 2 hours each day one week, then 3 hours the next week, etc., until I'm now standing the whole day. I love it.

Question that I haven't seen addressed online: about how much do those Series 7 desks cost if one buys them individually?

Anyone have some links to studies that show sitting in a chair at your desk is bad for your health?

Hacker News these days has all the links you need, and more:

Sitting for hours can shave years off life (cnn.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2702384

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