- Title
- Changing workplace health culture
- Creator
- Pedersen, Scott; Mainsbridge, Casey; Cooley, Dean
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/154993
- Identifier
- vital:11216
- Identifier
- ISBN: 978-1- 61369-002-4
- Abstract
- Prolonged occupational sitting time (POST) is a silent killer for even the healthiest of working adults. Currently, an office-based worker spends an average of 80,000 hours sitting during the course of their working life. Recent data suggests that POST of four hours or more is a health risk for all desk-based employees. Exposure to this hazard increases the risk of suffering from diseases related to increased morbidity and mortality. Moreover, a worker's increased level of fitness may only ameliorate some of the risk. That is, even workers with high levels of physical fitness may still be at risk if they sit for more than four hours per day. Research from the Baker IDI institute showed an association between POST and increases in waist girth, weight, body mass index and negative blood lipid profiles (i.e., blood glucose, lipoprotein lipase [LPL]), irrespective of current fitness level.
- Publisher
- Corporate Health and Wellness Association
- Relation
- Engaging Wellness : Corporate wellness programs that work, Chapter 10: Interventions and Best Practices, p. 298-308
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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