Modern times
May. 15th, 2007 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tikistitch
ZOMG! Someone's found a way to make office work even more horrible and degrading!
Making work even more of a slog takes weight off
They built what they called a "vertical workstation" -- a desk fitted over a standard treadmill. They persuaded 15 obese people to work at this treadmill-desk and measured how many calories they burned.
Seriously, tiki would totally do a standing workstation, if it wouldn't drive our officemates totally crazy. But this....
If an overweight office worker used this vertical workstation all day, every day for a year, he or she could lose up to 66 pounds (30 kg), the researchers report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
With the extra pep, they could murder up to three company vice presidents!!
James Levine and Jennifer Miller measured how many calories their 15 volunteers burned using exhaled breath but did not determine if the volunteers lost weight.
'Cause, why bother? It's just such a good idea!
And who wants to go out for walks in icky-poo Nature (it's got germs!!!) when you could simply put on your sharpest office casual wear and walk in place all day in your nice crispy clean, beige cubicle?
