It can be easy to spend hours sitting at a desk without even realizing it.
The Healthy Tomorrow Foundation is trying to encourage people to make small changes at work which will have big impacts on their lives. Those changes could be as simple as walking over to a colleague’s desk instead of sending them an email.
“A lot of folks spend most of their time at work, and for a lot of them, that means not moving,” said Michelle Lincoln, health promotion advisor with the Healthy Tomorrow Foundation.
“What we’re trying to do is inspire this cultural shift where moving while working becomes the norm.”
The foundation wants people to get active – one small movement at a time.
“If we spend time breaking up our sedentary behavior and doing more of what’s known as light physical activity, so things like walking, wheeling, gardening, especially in short chunks throughout our day, then that …