<story><title>Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-heart.html?&amp;moduleDetail=section-news-1&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=Well&amp;region=Footer&amp;module=MoreInSection&amp;version=WhatsNext&amp;contentID=WhatsNext&amp;pgtype=article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluGill</author><text>Unfortunately while there is evidence that sitting all day is bad, we don&amp;#x27;t know if&amp;#x2F;what alternatives are good. Is standing better, or do you need to move? Maybe it is staring at something close (monitor, papers...) and sitting is only bad as a proxy (I know of no study that can actually say that hypothesis is wrong even though I just made it up). Modern life currently requires a lot of people to spend a lot of time at computers, so we need to know how to be healthy while at computers.&lt;p&gt;I like having a motorized desk, but I don&amp;#x27;t think I could actually stand all day long, (other than the same breaks someone sitting all day would take). I tried a treadmill desk a time or two, but I don&amp;#x27;t have the option of using it daily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nxsynonym</author><text>I think the only real alternative is to get rid of the 8+ hour work day.&lt;p&gt;Correct me if there is evidence to the contrary, but I don&amp;#x27;t think humans were designed to sit or stand in one position for extended periods of time, habitually.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I don&amp;#x27;t see the 8 hour work day going away any time soon, so imo the best option is to alternate sitting&amp;#x2F;standing and take as many walking around breaks as possible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-heart.html?&amp;moduleDetail=section-news-1&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=Well&amp;region=Footer&amp;module=MoreInSection&amp;version=WhatsNext&amp;contentID=WhatsNext&amp;pgtype=article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluGill</author><text>Unfortunately while there is evidence that sitting all day is bad, we don&amp;#x27;t know if&amp;#x2F;what alternatives are good. Is standing better, or do you need to move? Maybe it is staring at something close (monitor, papers...) and sitting is only bad as a proxy (I know of no study that can actually say that hypothesis is wrong even though I just made it up). Modern life currently requires a lot of people to spend a lot of time at computers, so we need to know how to be healthy while at computers.&lt;p&gt;I like having a motorized desk, but I don&amp;#x27;t think I could actually stand all day long, (other than the same breaks someone sitting all day would take). I tried a treadmill desk a time or two, but I don&amp;#x27;t have the option of using it daily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinjp</author><text>Prolonged standing increases risk of varicose veins. It seems likely that mixing sitting and standing would be best. In what proportions, I don&amp;#x27;t know. Walking is likely to be a good substitute for simple standing in most people. It improves veinous return, puts some healthy impact into the legs, increases uptake of glucose from the blood stream by the leg muscles, gives the heart and lungs a little extra work, etc.</text></comment>