Any activity – even sleeping or standing – is better for your heart than sitting down, research suggests.
New evidence reinforces why sedentary behaviour is a killer and shows that just a few minutes of exercise per day could help slash the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Researchers suggested that swapping time spent sitting down for exercise led to better cholesterol levels, helps people stay a healthy weight and leads to a smaller waist circumference.
I was using my lunches for walks but doing napkin math standing over 8 hours beat walking for one. I was lucky enough to get a standing desk and then I flipped the scrip and take a load off at lunch. Either way is good but boo to your work not giving you a standing desk. If you ever start being able to do it my advice is I like a permanent standing desk at just the right ergonomic height for keyboard and monitors up at eye level (eyes a bit more toward the top when looking straight ahead) and then have a chair that is barstool height so if I feel the need to sit I can go back to standing really easily (encourages more standing). The deskts that move up and down with standard chairs are the fad but if you go all the way down to sit you are much less likely to stand back up.