Why Standing May Be as Important as Exercise

Even if you exercise regularly, too much sitting can be detrimental to your health. The simple act of standing, however, can have powerful benefits for your mind and body.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Sitting and other forms of prolonged, uninterrupted sedentary time promotes cardiometabolic disorders, obesity, depression and all-cause mortality in adults and in children are linked to obesity, anxiety and depressive symptoms

• More than two dozen chronic diseases, from diabetes and high blood pressure to back pain and deep vein thrombos…