Treadmill desks are popular, even aspirational, in many offices today because they can help those of us who are deskbound move more, burn extra calories and generally improve our health. But a new ...

It's been said that "sitting is the new smoking" -- and an increasing number of office workers are quitting cold turkey. Swapping your chair for a treadmill desk can rev up activity levels and ...

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I love my home office chair — deeply. It feels like sitting in a hug. Before 2020, I would only see it a few hours a day. The rest of the time, I’d work in co-working spaces and coffee shops, which I ...

About 10 years ago, obesity researcher Dr. James Levine developed a treadmill desk after his early research revealed the danger of sitting in the fight against obesity. A convert to Levine’s way of ...

Endocrinologist Dr. James Levine is the inventor of the treadmill desk and author of the book "Get Up: Why Your Chair Is Killing You & What You Can Do About It." Having studied the effects of "sitting ...

The evidence that sitting for too long is terrible for us is clear — so clear, in fact, the World Health Organization recently changed their guidance on exercise to explicitly account for that fact.

January is fitness month. After the holidays it seems everyone wants to get into better shape and we know its a resolution for many. Jut head to your gym and see how many people are there. So I wasn’t ...

Just because you have a desk job doesn’t mean you need to watch your waistline grow year after year. If you can walk, you can use a treadmill desk. It’s a surefire way to burn extra calories and feel ...

I love my home office chair — deeply. It feels like sitting in a hug. Before 2020, I would only see it a few hours a day. The rest of the time, I’d work in co-working spaces and coffee shops, which I ...