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https://gizmodo.com/standing-desks-arent-just-useless-they-might-also-be-bad-for-your-health-2000517332

by Jack McNamara
October 29, 2024

A new study from Australia involving over 83,000 participants found that prolonged standing may not improve heart health and could even increase the risk of certain circulatory problems.

Researchers discovered that standing for extended periods did not reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. In fact, spending too much time either sitting or standing was linked to a higher risk of problems such as varicose veins and feeling dizzy or lightheaded when you stand up.

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Link to study:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39412356/
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Well, I have cysts on the nerve roots of my spinal cord S1-S3 making it difficult to sit.  I've had a standing desk for the past couple of years.  I stand for awhile at the desk and then I walk about the house and do chores or go outside for a little bit.

It is what it is; data or not, I need a standing desk.

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Well, I have cysts on the nerve roots of my spinal cord S1-S3 making it difficult to sit.  I've had a standing desk for the past couple of years.  I stand for awhile at the desk and then I walk about the house and do chores or go outside for a little bit.

It is what it is; data or not, I need a standing desk.
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Well, I have cysts on the nerve roots of my spinal cord S1-S3 making it difficult to sit.  I've had a standing desk for the past couple of years.  I stand for awhile at the desk and then I walk about the house and do chores or go outside for a little bit.

It is what it is; data or not, I need a standing desk.

Standing desk make my life easier when I'm at an office. Nice to spend a few minutes every hour standing, and often easier than getting into a chair and typing something and getting back up.

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"Health" fads are often not healthy. I'm so old that I remember when sucrose was of the devil, but fructose (e.g. in honey) was just fine. Now, fructose is The Devil.
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Well, I have cysts on the nerve roots of my spinal cord S1-S3 making it difficult to sit.  I've had a standing desk for the past couple of years.  I stand for awhile at the desk and then I walk about the house and do chores or go outside for a little bit.

It is what it is; data or not, I need a standing desk.

The main point should be that everything evens out.  Nothing is 100% better and good for everyone.  It’s like the holes in the dam.  You try to rectify one, you open another.

This nonsense wouldn’t work for me, especially since I got plantar fasciitis (one of the very few ailments I know the origin of - walking around for more than a year mostly barefoot, after having my son and not working anymore).  It also doesn’t help all the time with my pelvic problems, which this year got horrendous.  A balance is best for that part.

But then, this happens with all “medical” or “health” stuff - it’s all rather unimportant, and 1 size does not fit all.  Biology is very complex and thus, NOT an exact pure science.  They told us eggs were bad for us 40 years ago.  Now they say we can eat them.  Etc.  it never, ever ends.
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I tend to stand up and pace around in my home office when I'm on a long conference call, but I absolutely hate it when I go into the office and someone on the other side of the cubicle wall is using the standing desk feature.

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One should note that a standing desk normally has an option to raise and lower the surface at a whim.

As one tied to a chair for many long hours of many long days at Command Central, and that in the purely old fashioned office sense, I will happily endorse the idea of standing desks - The only problem I see with it is the chair - One is left with either sitting or standing, and not able to entertain what might be in between... At least not without multiple chairs.

I had the option of going out to the shop, which of course, was network connected, and operating from the desk out there. That desk was bar height, with a shop style bar stool, which was a great relief from normal office sitting - and of course could be used standing.

But never the twain shall meet, it seems without a series of chair the office could not handle.

In the latter years of my work life, it ceased to be a functional problem as interoperability increased. Most of my desk went headless using RDP, and I could function anywhere (around the property) in any variety of settings and positions. That was most excellent.

And in the last year or two, That interoperability went world-wide. I almost got to where I could conduct business from a camper in the middle of the Bob Marshal wilderness. Not quite. Though I could now with ease (if I could get there).

There would be no restrictions now on position or location, with the exception of hands-on work.

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I tend to stand up and pace around in my home office when I'm on a long conference call, but I absolutely hate it when I go into the office and someone on the other side of the cubicle wall is using the standing desk feature.


I’m sure you aren’t alone, you should start marketing cubicle wall height extensions.

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"Health" fads are often not healthy. I'm so old that I remember when sucrose was of the devil, but fructose (e.g. in honey) was just fine. Now, fructose is The Devil.
salt/no salt
Butter/margarine
Lard/bacon fat/vegetable oils
Less red meat/more red meat
Lots of carbs/a very few carbs/'keto'
I eat what makes me feel best, and usually 'healthy' isn't exactly it.
Moderation in everything, but I think the food pyramid is all messed up...
and that's a big part of why we have the world's fattest poor people.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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salt/no salt
Butter/margarine
Lard/bacon fat/vegetable oils
Less red meat/more red meat
Lots of carbs/a very few carbs/'keto'
I eat what makes me feel best, and usually 'healthy' isn't exactly it.
Moderation in everything, but I think the food pyramid is all messed up...
and that's a big part of why we have the world's fattest poor people.

Oat bran

A phrase I've seen on one of the news & commentary sites I frequent: The Tyranny of Experts. "Experts" working with incomplete and/or misunderstood information are pretty much guaranteed to come up with foolish (or worse) dictums. Then there's the snake oil salesmen of the world who gain credibility through the outrageousness and volume of their claims.
« Last Edit: November 03, 2024, 11:08:32 am by PeteS in CA »
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If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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salt/no salt
Butter/margarine
Lard/bacon fat/vegetable oils
Less red meat/more red meat
Lots of carbs/a very few carbs/'keto'
I eat what makes me feel best, and usually 'healthy' isn't exactly it.
Moderation in everything, but I think the food pyramid is all messed up...
and that's a big part of why we have the world's fattest poor people.

For me, I just want death to come quickly, preferably at night. Worrying about your "health incessantly, is it itself unhealthy.