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paulobrabo:
There was another article recently (can't locate it) about how sitting all day is worse for you that they previously thought -- and more articles recently about standing desks.
-mouser (April 19, 2011, 09:48 PM)
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Some of those articles, for reference. I'm in the process of trying a standing table, btw. Pictures and impressions soon.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm

Hamilton, like many sitting researchers, doesn't own an office chair.
"If you're standing around and puttering, you recruit specialized
muscles designed for postural support that never tire," he says.
"They're unique in that the nervous system recruits them for
low-intensity activity and they're very rich in enzymes." One enzyme,
lipoprotein lipase, grabs fat and cholesterol from the blood, burning
the fat into energy while shifting the cholesterol from LDL (the bad
kind) to HDL (the healthy kind). When you sit, the muscles are
relaxed, and enzyme activity drops by 90% to 95%, leaving fat to camp
out in the bloodstream. Within a couple hours of sitting, healthy
cholesterol plummets by 20%.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-while-you-read-this/

But it looks as though there’s a more sinister aspect to sitting, too.
Several strands of evidence suggest that there’s a “physiology of
inactivity”: that when you spend long periods sitting, your body
actually does things that are bad for you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage

Sitting, it would seem, is an independent pathology. Being sedentary
for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you
go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym. It is bad
whether you are morbidly obese or marathon-runner thin. “Excessive
sitting,” Dr. Levine says, “is a lethal activity.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=can-sitting-too-much-kill-you-2011-01-06

Western society is built around sitting. We sit at work, we sit at
school, we sit at home, and we sit in our cars as we commute back and
forth. In fact, a recent survey reports that the average American
accumulates more than 8 hours of sedentary behavior every day—roughly
half of their waking hours.

http://fittipdaily.com/sitting-could-still-be-killing-you-regardless-of-exercise-5805/

New research suggests that your daily bout at the gym may not be the
only thing you need to stay alive if you spend your life behind a
desk.

JennyB:
I used to use a standing desk at a job that had them to save space. I only worked there 3 days a week, on weekends (Fri-Sat-Sun) answering phones and writing down orders. Halfway through the day (often sooner) my feet would start killing me. I would end up having to grab a chair and adjust the height so I could rest one knee on it, in order to keep one foot off the floor, alternating feet, for the rest of the day.
-app103 (April 21, 2011, 07:18 PM)
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I've been using a standing desk for about six months, and had the same problem, until I got a little step-up stool and put that under the desk. One foot up on that every so often gives me a rest. I work at home, so it's easy for me to walk away if I get stuck with what I want to write next. Sometimes I'll bring my wireless keyboard with me, lying down on a couch, and type away without looking at the monitor. Then I go back and edit.  :P

40hz:
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I've been using a standing desk for about six months, and had the same problem, until I got a little step-up stool and put that under the desk. One foot up on that every so often gives me a rest.
-JennyB (April 22, 2011, 06:13 AM)
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Almost the same posture you'd use standing at the bar of your favorite pub with a glass of fresh ale in front of you!

Hmm...maybe I'll pack up my work and drop by The Horseshoe and see if I'm more comfortable and productive standing and...working. They've got a few new things on tap I've been meaning to sample anyway. Two birds, one stone, so there's efficiencies gained right there!

Worth a try at any rate.

@Jen - Thx for the inspiration! ;D

mouser:
Thanks for the collection of excerpts paulo, you found the one recent article (the NY Times one from April 17, 2011) that i was having trouble recalling earlier.

ewemoa:
There was a Wikipedia page related this subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_desk

Perhaps all of the articles mentioned at its end have already been posted, but FWIW :)

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