Tuesday, May 15, 2007

'Treadmill desks' could cut obesity rates in the office / Independent, 15 May 2007
http://digbig.com/4sxcj
Jeremy Laurance
"As solutions to the obesity crisis go, one idea dreamed up by two US scientists could transform our notion of the office. Instead of walking to work, the pair have designed a desk that enables the overweight to walk at work. The walking desk - or "vertical workstation"- is fixed to a treadmill enablingoffice workers to work while burning calories."