{"id":842,"date":"2015-06-02T04:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2015-06-02T04:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T04:04:39","slug":"spending-half-the-day-on-your-feet-reduces-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-cancer-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/02\/spending-half-the-day-on-your-feet-reduces-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-cancer-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending half the day on your feet reduces risk of heart attacks and cancer, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-8939454 articleContent\">\n<p>Office workers should abandon their chairs for half their working day to reduce their risk of heart attacks, cancer, or diabetes, according to new guidance recommending people spend at least two hours \u2013 and preferably four \u2013 a day on their feet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent\">\n<div class=\"body \">\n<p>Bosses should provide desks which people can stand at, and allow workers to have regular breaks to walk around, according to the new study, commissioned by Public Health England (PHE) and the Active Working Community Interest Company.<\/p>\n<p>And companies should warn their employees that: \u201cprolonged sitting, aggregated from work and in leisure time, may significantly and independently increase the risk of cardiometabolic diseases and premature mortality,\u201d says the expert guidance which is published in the <em>British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Office workers should spend at least two hours a day \u201cstanding and light activity (light walking) during working hours, eventually progressing to a total accumulation of 4 h,\u201d recommends the first ever British guidance designed to curb the health risks of too much time sitting down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/spending-half-the-day-on-your-feet-reduces-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-cancer-study-says-10289633.html\">For full story, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office workers should abandon their chairs for half their working day to reduce their risk of heart attacks, cancer, or diabetes, according to new guidance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[340],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}