According to the Heart Foundation, citing a 2011 study of 800,000 people, those who sit the most have a 112% increased risk of diabetes, a 147% increased risk of heart attack or stroke, a 90% increased risk of death from cardiovascular events and a 49% increased risk of death from any cause.Īnd even if we were to take away the reduced risk of disease and death that standing for a few hours can bring (which we shouldn’t), you still get ergonomic benefits from using a standing desk - provided that you’re following the usual rules with your monitor at eye level and your keyboard comfortably at elbow height.Ĭlearly, we need to be sitting less, and a standing desk converter makes it easy to do so without interrupting our productivity.
Sitting is increasingly referred to as “the new smoking,” and the numbers show that that’s not really much of an exaggeration.
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a growing consensus among the medical community that spending all day, every day on our butts at work is incredibly detrimental to our overall health.
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