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TAKE a stand

After a long-haul flight or a big journey on the road, shaking out that stiff feeling when you finally get to stretch your legs is enough of an indicator that sitting for hours on end is not good for the body. Yet for many of us, we don’t think twice about the significant amount of time we spend seated each week at work, in traffic or bingeing episodes of Netflix on the couch. Clear connections have been found between sitting for prolonged periods of time and a vast range of negative health outcomes,

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