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Title:* *Taking a Stand for Office Ergonomics * *Date: Dec. 2, 2012

*Source:* New York Times Author: Steven Lohr

*Summary: *But a closer look at the accumulating research on sitting reveals something more intriguing, and disturbing: the health hazards of sitting for long stretches are significant even for people who are quite active when they’re not sitting down. That point was reiterated recently in two studies,http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/get-up-get-out-dont-sit/published in The British Journal of Sports Medicine http://bjsm.bmj.com/ and in Diabetologia http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-012-2677-z, a journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabeteshttp://www.easd.org/easd/ .

*Link: *http://nyti.ms/11r9TY8