Losing weight at work
Sounds too good to be true? A new desk created at the Mayo Clinic in the US is basically a desk placed on top of a treadmill. An overweight worker would lose over 60 pounds if he or she used the desk-treadmill all day every day for a year. If that isn’t multitasking, what is? The price tag is pretty high, the desk will be sold for about 1600 USD. It’s now up to you to convince your boss of the importance of this new technology. Good luck.
The article:
Could work actually make you fitter? You might think it unlikely as you sit in your office slumped in front of your computer, but a new desk designed at the Mayo Clinic could give you a proper work out.
The U.S. medical practice have built what they called a “vertical workstation” — a desk fitted over a standard treadmill.
They persuaded 15 obese people to work at this treadmill-desk and measured how many calories they burned.
If an overweight office worker used this vertical workstation all day, every day for a year, he or she could lose up to 66 pounds, the researchers report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.