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For the average small business owner, long hours at work means long hours at the desk until it’s time to stagger, hunched over, to the door and then try to stretch out on your way home.
The medical community recommends high cardiovascular workouts for a half-hour, three to five times a week. But who has the time or inclination to go to a gym after a hard day of work? And who reading here has forked out money for a year of gym membership, only to go twice and then quit? And who has expensive exercise equipment serving as a clothes rack in the corner?
Okay, you should really make an effort to perform blood-pumping exercise, but a recent study by Leeds University in the U.K. has found that this is not quite enough to counteract hours of sedentary behavior. This study also found that fidgeting, a near constant state of moving muscles a little bit, can go a long way toward lowering the risk of diabetes and metabolic syndrome.