The deskbound nerd class is a sitting duck for disease!!!

My desk is a total bleeping mess. I’d take a picture but it’s too horrible. Instead I can show you what it looked like many moons ago and tell you that It’s gotten exponentially worse since then.

So it’s quite obvious to me that I need some help - along the lines of the pretty desk organizing thingys they sell at The Container Store (go there and exclaim with me: “oooooh")- which alas, does not have a presence in this frozen land of igloos and dog sledding. Damn them.

So I turned to my cheap local alternative, Staples. But the ugliness of their Rubbermaid desk organizer ($4.55) wanted me to petition my local MP for style laws. Honestly, the only thing I want in Rubbermaid is my lunch, and increasingly less of it what with all the plastic leaching scares.

So I tried using my finely tuned google skills to hunt down some what stylish office accessories in Vancouver. And I opened up all these links in different tabs when I heard the voice of God emerge from my computer. I hopped around my tabs to find Him. That’s when I realized that the innocuous website http://www.details-worktools.com was in fact a company pushing the whole ergonomic and healthy work place idea to fight rampant obesity and the ensuing health problems.

(Related: “Introducing the At-Work Workout” March 14, 2007)

Like all other people in the annals of history who hear the voice of God I hastened to preach His gospel and emailed my officemates. Needless to say His Walkstation idea was a big hit (the company really likes plays on words I can tell. They also sell AdjusTables - get it?). And when one of them came across Lifehacker’s recent post about how Prolonged Sitting Causes Disease we were fast to recognize this coincidence for what it truly was: Divine intervention.

So here’s the word from on high. Even if you get the recommended 30 minutes of activity per day it’s all for naught if you sit on your tush for the rest of it. Simply standing up can more than double your metabolic rate. Hence the AdjusTable.

Here’s the study press release over at Eurekalert.

VIA Lifehacker

(Thanks Jonathan!)