You go to work and sit.  You go home and sit for dinner.  After dinner you sit in front of the TV.

Do suffer from tired butt syndrome?

More and more workers are listening to their bodies, specifically their behind, while they spend hours and hours sitting in the workplace.

The University of Iowa conducted a study and found that employees with desks that force them to stand at regular intervals stood 60 minutes more per work day than co-workers with regular desks.

Lucas Carr, an assistant professor who worked on the study with the Obesity Research and Education Initiative, says sitting eight hours a day puts workers at risk for cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and diabetes and becomes more of an issue with each passing year.

"The idea here is to really redesign the work environment, because most of us will be working for anywhere between 20 and 30 years," says Carr. "So if somebody is sitting for 40 hours a week and for 30 years, you can imagine how those things would build up."

Carr has many recommendations for workers who sit much of their workday. Learn more about the Sitting Study.

Here are a few things I try to do and break up the workday:

*When someone comes into your office to chat, stand up
*When the phone rings, stand up and talk
*If you are opening mail you can stand
*Need to send a text to your spouse or kids, get up

Source: GDNS.COM

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