Table for Your Health
The dynamic style of work requires the expansion of the functionality of furniture. That is why the height adjustable standing desk with an electric drive system or mechanical height adjustment is becoming increasingly popular.
Why is it useful to work standing up?
Scientists have found that sedentary work worsens overall physical health and shortens life expectancy. American doctors discovered Sedentary Death Syndrome back in 2010. The cardiovascular system of a person becomes unusable from constant sitting. Every third person in the world dies from cardiovascular diseases. This is the most common cause of death.
From the point of view of endocrinology, the syndrome of early sedentary death is characterized by a change in such an important enzyme as lipoprotein lipase. It works with fats in the body.
Where this enzyme is active, metabolism accelerates there (let’s explain: in muscle tissue lipoprotein lipase burns fat, and in adipose tissue, on the contrary, accumulates). If a person sits a lot, the enzyme ceases to be active in muscle tissue. Even if after 8 hours of sitting at the workplace a person goes to fitness, lipoprotein lipase is still not activated in the muscles.
Advantage of adjustable tables
Doctors do not give unambiguous recommendations on how to work better: sitting or standing. It all depends on the state of health, individual physiological characteristics and duration of stay at the workplace. It is useful to alternate static with active warm-up, and after a long sitting to work standing up.
The height-adjustable table in wide ranges allows you to change the height of the table top. Due to this, its owner will be able to work standing up part of time, excluding the development of stagnant phenomena in the body, as well as spend some time sitting, resting legs.
The main element of the tables with the possibility of height adjustment is lifting systems. So, today the most common are the following types of systems:
- with electric drive;
- with mechanical height adjustment.
You can find both types of furniture and choose the right one for you on the SONGMICS HOME website.
