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Standing Desks May Not Burn Many More Calories

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The corporate trend of forcing employees to stand up all day barely alters the actual metabolic rate. Instead of becoming incredibly fit, users merely trade a seated slump for lower joint compression, finding out the hard way that standing completely still is just a different flavor of being totally sedentary.

Standing Desks May Not Burn Many More Calories
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