Experts Disagree On Health Benefits Of Standing Desks.

reports many health experts are warning that the “most dangerous thing most of us do every day is sit down.” They point to dozens of studies that link prolonged sitting “and diabetes, hypertension, some forms of cancer (especially in women), anxiety and a generally greater probability of early death.” More businesses are installing desks that can be adjusted to rise and fall for workers, but “whether standing desks help is a subject of some dispute.” One group of researchers found that cutting sitting time to less than three hours a day “could lengthen your life expectancy by two years,” but contradictory research disagrees on “whether standing desks do anything to help workers burn more calories, or boost their productivity.” https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/dangers-of-sitting