Is your office chair bad for your health?

Men’s Health helps us answer this question.

This is your body on chairs: 

 1. Electrical activity in the muscles drops — “the muscles go as silent as those of a dead horse,” (MensHealth.com) — leading to a cascade of harmful metabolic effects.

2. Your calorie-burning rate immediately plunges to about one per minute, a third of what it would be if you got up and walked.

 3. Insulin effectiveness drops within a single day, and the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes rises.

4.  …so does the risk of being obese. The enzymes responsible for breaking down lipids and triglycerides — for “vacuuming up fat out of the bloodstream,” (MensHealth.com) plunge, which in turn causes the levels of good (HDL) cholesterol to fall.”

(source: Men’s Health)

Don’t you think that it is time that you reconsidered how you are sitting?

For us, Active Sitting is the only answer.