More and more enterprises that attach importance to employee care will specially build some [standing office areas] in the company in order to reduce the possible harm to health caused by sedentary office work.
The Harm of Sitting for a Long Time
[Sitting in the office], this term is very vivid. The essence of office work in modern society is: sedentary and sedentary.
The vast majority of office workers spend much more time sitting every day than they should have. Most people spend 6-7 hours or even more a day sitting at their desks and working against the computer screen.
In addition to the clear risk of obesity, the hazards of sedentary sitting include:
- Lumbar muscle strain, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, even shortened life span
The office compatriots who have been sedentary for a long time are all very suffering in their hearts: while they are helplessly suffering from lazy cancer, they are very yearning for health, and then they are afraid of fat death, karoshi and sudden death…
[Sit less and stand more], there are many such health popular science messages.
Want to control weight? Not enough
However! Here are two big [however].
The latest study published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health tells us:
If you want to control your weight, standing alone is not enough.
Researchers from the Sports and Weight Management Research Center of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States gathered 74 healthy volunteers aged 25 or 16 with normal weight and randomly divided them into 4 groups:
Group 1: Sit and play computer for 15 minutes. Then stand up for 15 minutes.
Group 2: Sit and watch the screen for 15 minutes. Then walk easily for 15 minutes.
Group 3: Stand and watch the screen for 15 minutes. Then sit and play computer for 15 minutes.
Group 4: Walk easily for 15 minutes. Then sit and watch the screen for 15 minutes.
Results: People who use standing instead of sitting quietly at work consume only 8-9 kilocalories more calories per hour on average than sitting quietly.
So 8 ~ 9 kilocalories is the concept of what? If the workstation has enough 8 hours a day, only one cup of 100 grams of packaged original yogurt will have 73 kilocalories.
This shows that although standing consumes a little more heat than sitting, occasionally standing to work, the energy consumption is too small and does not have much effect!
If you stand up at work to see the girl you like outside several rows of desks, congratulations on finding your life goal.
If you stand up to control your balloon-like waistline, please send this bad news to yourself on WeChat: just standing up has no what effect.
It is better to stand silly than to sit smart.
However, one thing is one thing. Just standing up is not useless.
- Standing alone is also good for blood sugar health. Standing alone is also good for relieving discomfort in waist and shoulders. Standing alone burns a little more heat than sitting anyway.
If you really don’t want to move, please stand up. Silly standing is better than sitting!
To stand up, but also to walk
Research experiments have found that as long as you walk in the office, you have completely different effects.
Volunteers only need to walk for 15 minutes, even if the pace is very easy, the calorie consumption will be as high as about 3 times when sitting or standing. Don’t underestimate any short walk, the cumulative effect is quite large. If you can walk for 1 hour, you will consume 130 kilocalories more than standing or sitting.
This kind of heat consumption is expected to offset the growing weight of [the wind sneaks into the night and the fat people are silent].
For example, move a box of A4 paper from one end to the other (you can move it back). From the boss’s desk all the way to the drinking fountain in the corridor to fetch water, drink more water and wine, go to the toilet several times more, and go around the long road specially… instead of holding a super-large water cup, sitting at the table after filling it with water, drinking for one day, the amount of activity inadvertently increases.