there are a number of studies showing a correlation between the sedentary lifestyle and a variety of diseases, such as obesity, diabetes tip or 2, hypertension and diseases of the heart, which have an impact on life expectancy.
For many office workers a working day involves sitting spend many hours of the day and for long uninterrupted periods of time.
Today the constant use of electronic mail and instant messaging makes us have not even to get to talk to colleagues who sit a few meters or in other departments.
4 small changes in your everyday life that can improve your well-being exercises that will help you to aging well from the 30 by that for a few years in some offices have begun swarming desktops that let you work standing.
Some companies are investing large amounts of money in these new computers that allow you to adjust the height of the tables to work sitting or standing.
But, really can benefit your health?
How many hours in the saddle are too many?
In addition to the office or school hours, increasingly spend more hours sitting in our free time, watching television, playing video games, reading, surfing the internet or even using means of transport.
But there is no official recommendation established on how many hours a day are “too” in the Chair.
Many experts recommend that we should stop us, move us or take breaks during at least two of the eight hours a day. That Yes, from 2015, experts recommend that we should stop us, move us or take breaks during at least two of the eight hours a day for a standard work shift.
And that should gradually be increased that time to spend at least half of the shift, i.e., four hours, doing what he called “light-duty activities”.
This is one of the recommendations that a release of experts published in 2015 in the magazine British Journal of Sports and Medicine.
Another document published by 2015 by the authority for the health of England, Public Health England, recommended to minimize the time spent sitting still.
“Being active is good for your physical and mental health. Simple changes in behavior as breaking long periods in the Chair can make a huge difference”.
According to the expert panel that issued the report, stand or do some kind of movement for more than two hours a day at work was associated with lower health risks.
And those who remained standing for at least four hours a day had risk values lower, regardless of the level of physical activity of the person.
In this context, the desktops that let you work standing offer an opportunity to change their stance and avoid spending too many hours sitting.
Aid to be active the issue is not whether or not these desks are better than the traditional: the key is that spend too many hours sitting is not recommended for health.
Work some hours of foot is an opportunity to be more active, as does go up and down stairs, make breaks and changes of posture regularly or attend meetings by walking, a fashion for some years in the most innovative offices.
Hemingway had preferred to write positive piel is offering an alternative to prolonged sedentary, although spend too many hours of foot also can be counterproductive for those who suffer, for example, from back pain.
Although they are not a solution, they can help improve the health of employees.
According to a recent study by the University of Deakin, Australia, with more than 230 desk workers, adoption of these adjustable to work sitting or standing tables could save “years of life” for prevention of associated diseases society to obesity.
Several companies have opted for new models of computers that allow you to work the same standing to sentadosEl study, published in the journal Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Healthestimated that the cost of giving to the workers this type of desk is about US$ 344 per person, but the authors of the research believe that that figure could be reduced with the economy of scale, placing large orders and sharing equipment.
“This intervention has the potential to have a positive, meaningful and sustainable impact to reduce the time passed sitting at work, but most importantly, it is worth the investment, we know it’s something key to have it applied as program” , said Dr. Lan Gao, the researcher who led the study.
“Currently there is no sufficient evidence as to make a specific recommendation on how much time sitting or lying down, it is associated with poor results for health”, told The Guardian the British journal .
This type of desk is usually relatively expensive “but is recommended to interrupt the time passed sitting or lying as often as possible”, said.
On the other hand, there are still not many studies on the subject but with 96 individuals new research concluded that work at a standing desk 30 minutes did not have any adverse effect on reading comprehension or the creativity of workers to perform labor tasks.
But the study, published in 2017 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthclarifies that it is still investigating what would be the effect on productivity after several hours of work.
