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Apparently it's healthy and you get more productive, we'll see.

Inspired by answers here:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/qu ... e-standing

Nice creative solution

Nice but... is that actually better, for health and productivity ?

JRub wrote:Nice but... is that actually better, for health and productivity ?

Sitting for 12 hours a day is not healthy, that is for sure, we are not adjusted to sitting lifestyle, remember that not so long ago we were jumping on trees Some obvious consequences of too much sitting are problems with your back or circulation (cold feet/hands anyone?).

I remember reading about these standup desks a year ago or so, but there is no such stuff to buy here in Poland, I've found one but it costs 1000$ (uhh!), on stackexcahange (link in 1st post) they say in USA you can buy such desk for 100-200$, I've stumbled across that question today and a bulb lightened in my head, now I got one at no cost.

Getting up and walking around every 20mins is also a good approach according to doctors I've talked to.

magreenblatt wrote:Getting up and walking around every 20mins is also a good approach according to doctors I've talked to.

Making breaks is important, I even wrote a program to remind that, there was a topic here on CEF about it, it's called 5 minute break:
http://code.google.com/p/5minutebreak/

But it's sometimes so hard to get up, when you have something to finish and making a break gets you distracted and you end up sitting for many hours, I got this often, you even forgot to eat. After a few hours of standing today I got a really big appetite.