Could a treadmill desk save your life?

Our sedentary, office-bound lives are slowly killing us. Luckily, one British scientist thinks he has the answer. But will the ‘treadmill desk’ catch on?

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andra Hooks (right), clicks her mouse and talks on the phone all while walking on a treadmill Friday morning. Also on a treadmill is Kirk Hurley (left). Mutual of Omaha has 4 Walkstations in their customer-service area.  Photo: Chris Machian/The New York Times/Redux

By John Preston

9:30AM GMT 04 Dec 2011

In 2006, James Levine, a British scientist based at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, conducted a very strange experiment. He wanted to measure something which goes by the cumbersome title of Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis – or NEAT. Essentially, this examines how people move about during an average day – not when they’re exercising, but when they’re making no special effort to keep fit.

The big problem was just how to do the measuring – and here Levine hit upon a radical plan.......read on

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