You know that expensive st
anding desk you just persuaded your boss to buy so you could offset the damage of sitting all day? It’s not enough. A new study by researchers at the University of Utah used data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to see if longer durations of low intensity activities, like standing, and light intensity activities like casual walking, light gardening and cleaning extends the life span of people who are sedentary for more than half of their waking hours. The envelope please…The researchers found that “there is no benefit to decreasing sitting by two minutes each hour, and adding a corresponding two minutes more of low intensity activities. However, a “trade-off” of sitting for light intensity activities for two minutes each hour was associated with a 33 percent lower risk of dying.”
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