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Standing desk devotees may want to sit down for this news. A new study finds that over the long term, standing doesn’t improve cardiovascular health compared to sitting and could actually increase the ...

Sitting for long hours is bad for our health. Standing up may not be much better, though. A large new study of more than 83,000 adults found that standing for more than two hours a day — as many ...

Josephine Chau uses a sit-stand desk at work. She does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any standing desk company or organisation that would benefit from this article.

Ask anyone who’s tried a standing desk and they’ll all say the same thing: it makes your feet hurt. It makes sense since you aren’t used to it yet, especially if you’ve been sitting all day every day ...