The trouble with health warnings – the latest of which comes from the British Heart Foundation, suggesting that 20 million UK adults are risking an early death because of inactivity– is that they seem so abstract. How do you go from knowing you should exercise more, to actually doing it? Especially when you still have […]
Retrofit sit-stand desk solutions are a great success primarily for 2 reasons. Firstly they remove the upheaval of “out with the old and in with the new”. Second, they cost less. We’re adding to our range by the introducing MiniJack. MiniJack sits on top of your existing desk and allows you to go from sit to […]
Physical inactivity costs the UK £20bn each year and is a particular blight on the modern workforce. Sitting at a desk for eight hours a day increases the risk of premature death by up to 60 per cent and costs UK businesses productivity. Huw Edwards of UK Active urged the Government do more to promote […]
Today we had a great meeting with The Yorkshire Sport Foundation. Its vision is to create a vibrant, healthy and prosperous Yorkshire through sport and other initiatives. One of its areas of expertise is to support Primary Schools to make best use of the Primary School Sport Premium so they were very interested to talk through how we […]
Today we met up with CP Active at their HQ in Halifax to discuss how we can help each other around the startling fact that nearly one fifth of premature deaths in the UK are attributable to inactivity. Co-founder Richard Eccles explained to us how they help companies create environments that encourage active lifestyles by […]
Children at Malton Primary School will now be able to stand during their lessons with the launch of the world’s first education retrofit standing desk. UK enterprise (I Want A Standing Desk) has created the new EIGER Junior retrofit solution designed to turn any child’s sitting desk into a standing desk in seconds and allow […]
A third of Britons are putting themselves at risk of an early grave because they do hardly any exercise, a new report reveals. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) today warns that swathes of the population are needlessly heightening their chances of developing potentially fatal cardiovascular diseases by as much as 35 per cent. The research also […]
We want you to freeze! What’s your sitting position? We bet you anything you’re sitting hunched forward, your neck straining forward like an ostrich about to jump the gun. You might even be slumped resting your chin in your hand, the other idly scrolling the touchpad. Your wrists ache, your shoulder muscles feel sore and the lines where your stomach folds over are threatening to become etched in abs that aren’t as hard a stone. You’re not alone…far from it! Most of the UK is guilty of over-sitting. And it’s been a problem ever since people starting working at desks.
The University of Chester in the UK has been researching the standing vs sitting facts.
A report in The Daily Telegraph on 12.06.2013 has revealed the growing burden that the obesity crisis among children in Britain is placing on the NHS.
Most of the admissions to hospital were to tackle conditions that are made worse by obesity, such as asthma and breathing difficulties during sleep, according to a study of NHS statistics.
