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Daily movement & desk time

Would changing your workspace help you interrupt long periods of sitting?

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Check what standing desks can and cannot change

Worth it if you sit for long unbroken stretches and it actually gets you standing and moving more, not as a health fix on its own. Trials show sit stand desks reliably cut workday sitting time, but on their own they have not moved heart and metabolic markers much. Standing is not exercise.

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