Tag: sitting

Ryan Holmes, the Vancouver-based founder of Hootsuite, is determined to make standing desks available to everyone. Holmes, who founded the social media company Hootsuite in...

Compared to our ancestors, today we live overwhelmingly sedentary lives. Every day revolves around immobility, as we force ourselves out of bed, sit down...

A report published in Scientific American in 2014 states that the average American sits for 13 hours a day. We sit on the way...

For generations, students have been told to sit down at their desks for their daily lessons. Except for gym class and occasional field trips,...

A study that was recently published online, and will be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in December, “shows the breadth of...

As a culture, we spend so much time sitting. Think about it: many of us sit in our cars (or on buses) on our...

We all know sitting is bad and we should do it less, yet we still do a lot of it. In fact, the average...

In countries all over the world, you can find people performing an action that, at first glance, may appear strange. When they eat, watch...

The modern lifestyle habit of sitting down for hours on end is creating a public health crisis, and is among the most detrimental things...

When we get home from a long day on the job, the natural instinct for many of us is to plop down on the...