Diabetes: Yet another reason to get out of that chair

By Jen Christensen, CNN

Updated 2348 GMT (0748 HKT) February 2, 2016

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The new recommendations are to mix sitting with standing and moving at work. Gadgets and gears can help, even if you have to try out different ones until you find what works for you.
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Moving while at work with these products – The new recommendations are to mix sitting with standing and moving at work. Gadgets and gears can help, even if you have to try out different ones until you find what works for you.
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Part of the problem with a standing desk is the strain it puts on your feet and legs. Fluidstance boards allow you to rock your weight side to side and back and forth, relieving that strain.
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Fluidstance balance board – Part of the problem with a standing desk is the strain it puts on your feet and legs. Fluidstance boards allow you to rock your weight side to side and back and forth, relieving that strain.
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The Fundamentals EX Electric by Workrite is one of several standing desk options that looks like an ordinary desk until you push a button and up or down it goes.
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Fundamentals EX electric desk – The Fundamentals EX Electric by Workrite is one of several standing desk options that looks like an ordinary desk until you push a button and up or down it goes.
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Research by CoreChair suggests its product activates abdominal muscles more than a balance ball. But you can also just lock the chair in position and use it like any other chair.
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CoreChair – Research by CoreChair suggests its product activates abdominal muscles more than a balance ball. But you can also just lock the chair in position and use it like any other chair.
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The Apple Watch monitors how long you've been on your butt, allows you to set goals for standing and moving, and sends you reminders to help you meet those goals.
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Movement trackers – The Apple Watch monitors how long you've been on your butt, allows you to set goals for standing and moving, and sends you reminders to help you meet those goals.
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Golds-Gym-40-0041GG-Mini-Stepper/dp/B00IGIRTZ2" target="_blank">Gold's Gym mini stepper</a> gives you the feel of having a moderate workout, according to one user. The stair stepper is not all that different from marching in place.
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Electric stair stepper – The Gold's Gym mini stepper gives you the feel of having a moderate workout, according to one user. The stair stepper is not all that different from marching in place.
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The Kinetic Desk M1 desk has sensors that detect whether you're seated or standing, and shifts slightly up or down (on its own!) to nudge you to change position.
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Stir Kinetic Desk – The Kinetic Desk M1 desk has sensors that detect whether you're seated or standing, and shifts slightly up or down (on its own!) to nudge you to change position.
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Seemingly the perfect antidote to a sedentary workplace is the treadmill desk, and there is no shortage of options. But these desks can put a real wrench in some types of work.
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Treadmill desk – Seemingly the perfect antidote to a sedentary workplace is the treadmill desk, and there is no shortage of options. But these desks can put a real wrench in some types of work.
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Story highlights

  • People who sat an hour longer than others tested had 22% higher odds for type 2 diabetes
  • An extra hour of sedentary time was associated with 39% increased odds for metabolic syndrome

(CNN)We already knew that sitting, one of most people's favorite activities, may be killing you, but now we have new proof that before it gets you, you may get type 2 diabetes, too.

Even if you exercise
Even if you exercise
Modern life was constructed to keep you sitting down. When we drive, we sit. When we work at the office, we sit. When we watch TV, well, you get the picture.
    Last year we learned from a scientific review of 47 studies that this sedentary behavior increases your chances of getting a disease or condition that will kill you even if you exercise. Now a new study from the Netherlands running in the journal Diabetologia suggests that even an extra 40 minutes of couch potato behavior will dramatically increase your risk of getting type 2 diabetes.