How Many Hours a Day Should You Spend on Your Feet?

New research on standing points to a minimum daily goal

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readSep 15, 2021

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Photo: Adeolu Eletu/Unsplash

London’s bright-red double-decker buses are one of the city’s hallmarks. Seventy years ago, those buses and their operators were at the center of one of the first occupational studies to examine the role of sitting on health.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.