CINCINNATI (WKRC/CNN Newsource) – New analysis means that switching to a standing desk is probably not one of the simplest ways to forestall issues brought on by extended sitting.
Standing desks had been born from the rising curiosity in lowering the period of time individuals spent sitting. Sitting for a very long time has been linked to some well being issues corresponding to weight problems and cardiovascular ailments.
However new analysis may suggest that standing desks should not pretty much as good an answer as initially believed.
The primary research to emerge on standing desks had been largely optimistic towards the life-style change, however latest multi-year analysis suggests one thing completely different.
The examine discovered that sitting for greater than 10 hours a day may enhance the danger of coronary heart illness or stroke, but it surely additionally discovered that standing doesn't really forestall these issues. As an alternative, standing for lengthy durations of time may trigger its personal circulatory issues.
Extra particularly, standing for lengthy durations may cause blood to pool within the legs, which may result in issues corresponding to varicose veins.
So what’s the resolution? Analysis means that the issue shouldn’t be the place you might be in, however fairly a scarcity of motion. As an alternative of swapping your sitting desk for a standing desk, it is likely to be extra impactful to take quick walks all through the day, or at the least transfer round and stretch your legs (ideally at the least as soon as each 30 minutes).
However should you're decided to remain in a single place for a very long time, switching between standing and sitting is also resolution, the researchers consider.
It needs to be famous that the typical age of the examine individuals was 61 years and the outcomes had been based mostly solely on observations, so trigger and impact can’t be assured. Nevertheless, the pattern measurement was fairly massive (greater than 83,000), which supplies credibility to the analysis.