Items Tagged ‘Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis – or NEAT’

December 8, 2011

Is your desk a death trap?

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Our sedentary, office-bound lives are slowly killing us. Luckily, one British scientist thinks he has the answer. But will the ‘treadmill desk’ catch on? John Preston finds out.  In 2006, James Levine, a British scientist based at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, conducted a very strange experiment. He wanted to measure something which goes by […]

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Tags: James Levine, Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis - or NEAT