An Argument for More Frequent Intermissions?

Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes

… or for playing “Sit, Stand, Lean”?

“Sitting for long periods of time — when you don’t stand up, don’t move at all — tends to cause changes physiologically within your muscles. You stop breaking up fat in your bloodstream, you start getting accumulations of fat … in your liver, your heart and your brain. You get sleepy. You gain weight. You basically are much less healthy than if you’re moving.”

– Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes

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