Proactive employers encourage workers to get out of seats

A few years ago Jenni Lindsey waited with dread to board a rollercoaster at Silverwood Theme Park.

It wasn’t because of the stomach-churning drops: Lindsey worried about fitting into one of the rollercoaster’s seats.

"I was mortified," she said. "Some people wonder if they’re going to get vertigo or throw up. I was scared they would kick me off their rollercoaster because I was too big."

That was several years and 91 pounds ago. Lindsey undertook a series of small, daily changes to her life that helped her shed weight and stave off diabetes. She enrolled in Weight Watchers, began to take walks and started exercising.

Perhaps the most important change she undertook, however, was getting out of her desk chair at work and spending several hours a day at a standing work station.

John Stucke The Spokesman-Review

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