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Is sitting the new smoking? Popularity of stand-up desks catches on in Teton Valley
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aving to sit all day at work seems like a first world problem. “Oh the horror of having to sit all day!” A complaint only experienced by privileged individuals in countries like the United States. It’s up there with the pizza delivery guy taking an hour instead of the half hour promised to deliver food right to your door.
As a doctor at Teton Valley Health Care ,you might expect Dr. Nathan Levanger to cite a list of similar medical reasons as to why he made the switch, but for him it was simply a matter of having more energy. Levanger made the switch 10 years ago before standing desks were in vogue. Besides not falling asleep, he said he has noticed less stress on his upper back because his posture is better. He still has a regular desk and chair that he also uses at times throughout the day.
But, a study in 2011 by Dr. James Levine of the Mayor Clinic points to scary statistic. It found that “even among people who are physically fit and have a normal body weight, prolonged sitting, for any reason, was associated with increased health risks, suggesting that sitting for long periods may I realized I was cancel out some of the sitting all the time. In health benefits of regular exercise.” my office, driving to As with most trends, they meetings, sitting in take a little longer to get meetings. I wasn’t up to Idaho, but office workers in the valley have been and active enough. making the switch. (Full ___________________ disclosure, the author wrote this piece standing Monte Woolstenhulme, up.) school superintendent Teton School District superintendent Monte Woolstenhulme made the switch from sitting to standing at the beginning of the school year in August. “I realized I was sitting all the time,” he said. “In my office, driving to meetings, sitting in meetings. I wasn’t up and active enough.” “Our bodies are programmed to move,” Levine wrote. “When we spend most of our waking hours sitting, our health suffers in various ways.”
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he health risks he said includes; a sluggish central nervous system, weakened muscles, poor fat burning and increased heart risks.
Stand-up Desks
“If I stand, I won’t fall asleep,” he said.
20-28” to screen
For Woolstenhulme, he was a former teacher and coach, and was used to being on his feet. When he became an administrator, he was suddenly sitting a lot more.
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e said the first couple of months it was a transition he had to get used to. In addition to the health benefits he’s getting from standing more, he said an added benefit he didn’t anticipate was his focus. While on the phone, he said he could walk over to the window and look outside. Instead of sitting and working or writing notes while on the phone, he’s not distracted. He can just listen.
Elbows should be bent at a 90° angle.
Table height should be at or slightly below elbow height.
TVN Illustration/Amy Birch
Rachael Horne TVN staff
While there are a number of different desks available to purchase, converting your workspace is also a pretty simple DIY project. Woolstenhulme built his desk with scrap materials he found in his garage. The ideal height of a standing desk should be at or slightly below elbow height when your arms are bent at 90 degrees. The computer screen should be at eye level so you may want to have additional height on top of your desk for your screen.
Health concerns of sitting too much 1
Sluggish central nervous system.
Sitting causes your central nervous system to slow down, leading to fatigue. Three weekly sessions of low-intensity exercise, such as walking at a leisurely pace, which stimulates the central nervous system, reduced fatigue by 65 percent after six weeks, according to one study.
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Weakened muscles.
Sitting weakens your muscles (especially those that support posture and are used to walking) and stiffens joints, leading to a hunched posture and increased risk for back and joint pain.
TVN Photo/Rachael Horne
Dr. Nathan Levanger at work using a standing desk at Teton Valley Health Care in Driggs.
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Poor fat burning.
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Increased heart risks.
The walls of your capillaries are lined with lipoprotein lipase, an enzyme that breaks down certain fats in the bloodstream. Sit for a few hours, and these enzymes start switching off. Sit all day, and their activity drops by 50 percent. Sitting for long periods, even in people with healthy body weight, will have negative effects on blood sugar and blood fat levels, which may contribute to diabetes and heart disease. Source: James A. Levine, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
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Teton Valley News - February 20, 2014 - Page B13
Curling continued from B1______________________________________________________________________________________________ with guests at the recommendation of starting curling at Kotler’s, he said the desire to curl at his ice rink has not legitimately been expressed by the community. Last, with 80 hours of pre-planned rink programs already established, there is little room to institute a new one. “Some people here mentioned doing it as a program, and one person said it seriously, but I don’t remember who that was,” said Taow. “They need to start curling around here because there are a lot of people who grew up around it,” said Steven Carlson of Driggs with his eyes turned toward the Royal Wolf television as ‘hard, hard, hard’ was screamed through the speakers during another curling match. “Between the Minnesota boys and [midwest], for the last three winter Olympics, we’ve watched the hell out of it. You can sit back, drink a beer and throw
a big stone across the court.” “[Curling] is the sport people can That may be it. It’s a sport that relax to,” noted Caitlin Warner. can be played by anyAgain and again, one, drunk or sober, spectators around out-of-shape or perthe country tune in I think there’s fectly fit. Almost like to watch what has watching golf on a become America’s some solace Sunday afternoon, it unofficial Olympic to it. There’s relaxes and dissipates sport. Drunkards the aggressive complay it on icy streets something petition expressed in using old tea kettles, peaceful about the other events. and restaurateurs “I think there’s turn their heads to the whole event. some solace to it,” watch the rock land ________________ said David Scott of center in the house. Alta. “There’s someLike an early Beatles David Scott, thing peaceful about interview, old men Alta the whole event.” watch the sport, Even snowboard“for the chicks,” and ing maintains an everyone else who ideal of aggression, follows curling knows pushing the skill set that even if it is virtubigger, higher and ally unregistered for faster. roughly 200 consecutive weeks, this is
the everyman’s sport that captivates, confounds and carries the focus most during the few weeks of the Winter Olympics. There is an excerpt from “The Spirit of Curling,” an old set of guidelines to the sports competitive nature. “Curlers play to win but never to humble their opponents. A true curler would prefer lose rather than win unfairly … while the main object of the game is to determine the relative skill of the players, the spirit of the game demands good sportsmanship, kindly feeling, and honorable conduct.” Why is curling so popular? Because in a competitive world of winners and losers, each participant is held in the highest esteem, by their teammates, opponents, judges and spectators. They all humbly applaud the game.
CurlingTerms Brush
HOUSE
A device used to sweep the ice in the path of a moving stone.
Bonspiel
The rings or circles
toward which play is directed
consisting of a 12-foot ring, 8-foot ring, 4-foot ring and a button.
HOGGED HOG LINE STONE A line 10 meters from the hack at each end of the ice.
A stone that does not reach the far hog line. It must be removed from play.
SKIP
The player who determines the strategy, and directs play for the team. The skip delivers the last pair of stones for his/her team in each end.
Source: www.curling.ca/start-curling/glossary-of-curling-terms/
A curling competition or tournament.
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season. With a burning the year. Nash said it hunger in their bellies, offers good bear viewing You don’t want to bears have a one-track opportunities. Dependcome between a bear mind. ing on weather and conditions, interior park “You don’t want to and its lunch. Those roads are slated to begin come between a bear (winterkill) carcasses opening on April 18. and its lunch,” Nash can be found across said. “Those (winterkill) “Bears are more likely to carcasses can be found be active in the morning the park, but it is not across the park, but it is and evening,” Nash said. unusual for them to not unusual for them to “Binoculars and zoom be found on a trail you lens are always a good be found on a trail might hike.” idea because we have a you might hike. rule on the books that Bears may act aggressays you need to stay a ____________________ sively around winterkill football field (100 yards) and will often fight over Al Nash, away from bears.” carcasses with other Yellowstone public affairs bears or other species, Yellowstone restricts officer such as wolves. Viewing access to numerous areas such interactions can be throughout the park durmemorable. ing the spring. These bear management areas Bob Landis, the Gardinare intended to minierbased filmmaker, capmize human-grizzly bear tured one such moment encounters in locations in his 2012 film “Clash: of high bear activity. Encounters of Bears and Wolves.” Restrictions may include trail closures, “There was a carcass located near Tower in area closures, maximum party sizes of four the Lamar Valley,” Landis recalled. “There and limits travel to daylight hours and were several extremely large bears fightestablished trails. Restrictions are posted ing over a bison winterkill. I watched from about 500 yards as they were contending for at trailheads throughout the park and may be enforced from a few weeks to several the carcass. One was successful in controlmonths. For a complete list of closures, visit ling the carcass and then went off with a www.nps.gov/yell/ parkmgmt/bearclosures. coyote. The bear followed the coyote, and htm. the coyote, followed the bear. It was very innocent. Nash said the park appreciates hearing about bear sightings from visitors. “You very seldom see those large males fighting,” Landis said. “But, they must fight; “Stop at a visitor center, and let us know they have torn ears and scars on their faces.” what you have seen,” Nash said. “It helps our biologists with their research and other Yellowstone’s northern road connecting visitors who may be interested in viewing Gardiner to Cooke City is open throughout bears.”
Adult grizzly bears can be surprisingly small. In the Alberta Rookies, a mature grizzly bear can be as little as 250 pounds in the spring, smaller than area black bears.
The grizzly bear hump is actually a large, powerful muscle they use to power their forelimbs through their daily routine.
In Canada, grizzly bears are still legally hunted for trophy.
Grizzly’s front claws can be up to 4 inches in length, claws as long as human fingers.
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The grizzly population is estimated at 50,000 animals in North America, with only about 1,200 found in the lower-48.
Grizzly bear cubs will nurse for up to 3 years. Source: www.bearsmart.com/blog/1739
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