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.

Infographic: Sitting is killing you

Health and Research: Actual sitting isn’t the problem. It’s about how long we are sitting.

“Did you know that people who watched an average of six hours of TV a day lived 4.8 years less than those who didn’t watch any television? What’s more, every hour of TV that people watched after age 25 was associated with a 22-minute reduction in their life expectancy.”

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Human beings sit down, and after a little time they stand up again. That isn’t the problem. The problem lies in the fact that the time span between sitting down and getting up has been growing longer and longer in modern society. It is continuous sitting over several hours that is the problem. Man was made to move.