Office Work

Office work is generally indoor, white-collar work involving professional, managerial, or administrative duties.

Get Up and Move! Prolonged Sitting Causes Cancer

November 4, 2011

More evidence that prolonged sitting is hazardous to your health – and that exercise can mitigate the hazards. The American Institute for Cancer Research reports that more than 90,000 new cancer cases each year are due to prolonged sitting. The risk is there even if you’re physically active and physically fit. The AICR’s press release says, [...]

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Happy 30th Birthday, IBM PC

August 12, 2011

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM PC. It wasn’t the first personal computer – Xerox, Apple, Commodore, and many others had introduced various versions of personal computers years earlier. But its relative affordability, its ability to run many different programs, and its incorporation of third-party components made it the first [...]

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The Hazards of Sitting, Part II

August 5, 2011

There is growing evidence of the dangers of prolonged sitting, and the modern economy makes more people it. Luckily, we finally have some popular interest in this important topic. I believe it was this study, Television Viewing Time and Mortality: The Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab), 2010, that started the recent spate of [...]

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If You Must Sit, Sit Right

August 4, 2011

Yesterday, I talked about the dangers of prolonged sitting. In a perfect world, we would all be able to use a standing desk, a treadmill desk, or another healthy work set-up. Alas, most of us are stuck in a real world that doesn’t always have the budget or the physical space to accommodate such innovations. [...]

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The Hazards of Sitting

August 3, 2011

Sitting at a desk all day can kill you. Really. Several recent research studies and scientific articles have revealed alarming links between sedentary behavior and a number of deadly diseases. Here are summaries of just a few of them: Too much sitting: a novel and important predictor of chronic disease risk?This editorial in the British [...]

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