Responding to Long Periods of Sitting

By now, you would have probably seen all the evidence against sitting for long periods of time and how it can increase the risk of major diseases. In many offices, particularly software development companies, there are now standing desks. Those can have their own side effects of loss of productivity and painful lower backs. The real question is just how much standing or moving around is enough. Are we supposed take a stroll or run around the block several times? A new study offers some helpful perspective, suggesting that even a few minutes per hour of moving instead of remaining in a chair might substantially reduce the harms of oversitting. It really just takes two minutes of walking to lower the risk. Of course, the study needs more data and further research but it still seems like we are on the right track.