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Standing desks: The classroom of the future?

Sedentary officer workers aren’t the only people who may benefit from standing desks. A small but growing body of research is finding that children who stand at desks during school burn more calories than those who sit, information that could help in the battle against childhood obesity.

Julie Deardorff

August 7, 2012

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