About 10 years ago, obesity researcher Dr. James Levine developed a treadmill desk after his early research revealed the danger of sitting in the fight against obesity. A convert to Levine’s way of ...

Treadmill desks are popular, even aspirational, in many offices today because they can help those of us who are deskbound move more, burn extra calories and generally improve our health. But a new ...

Endocrinologist Dr. James Levine is the inventor of the treadmill desk and author of the book "Get Up: Why Your Chair Is Killing You & What You Can Do About It." Having studied the effects of "sitting ...

I love my home office chair — deeply. It feels like sitting in a hug. Before 2020, I would only see it a few hours a day. The rest of the time, I’d work in co-working spaces and coffee shops, which I ...

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Science suggests that if you want to stimulate your creativity and generally improve your thinking, you should get up from your chair and take a stroll. So it makes sense that walking on a treadmill ...

The evidence that sitting for too long is terrible for us is clear — so clear, in fact, the World Health Organization recently changed their guidance on exercise to explicitly account for that fact.

Just because you have a desk job doesn’t mean you need to watch your waistline grow year after year. If you can walk, you can use a treadmill desk. It’s a surefire way to burn extra calories and feel ...

The treadmill desk set up in my workspace! Source: Nacie Pereira As a desk-bound small business owner, I was eager to find a way to move more during the day while maintaining my productivity. A friend ...

We all know sitting all day at work is slowly killing us. Now the question is how to design anti-sitting desks that people will actually want to use–and how to get everyone, including kids, using them ...