BBC praised for Horizon special

Ergonomic office furniture specialist
Posturite has praised the BBC for
highlighting the health dangers of
too much time spent sitting.

Posturite said the recent BBC2
Horizon special report, ‘The Truth
About Exercise’, performed a
tremendous service by
demonstrating to a mass audience
the importance of regular movement.

The programme warned that
millions of people were facing a
health time bomb by spending up to
12 hours a day in a chair.

“It’s something we’ve been telling
people for years,” said Posturite’s
CEO Ian Fletcher-Price. “A chair can
be a killer if you spend too much time
in it. It’s absolutely vital that people
who have desk jobs take regular
breaks, stand up as often as they can,
and generally keep on the move.”
Posturite says thankfully there has
been an upturn in companies
investing proactively in equipment
designed to give desk-bound staff
greater health protection such as
sit/stand desking, ergonomic seating,
writing slopes/document holders,
vertical mice, monitor raisers and so
on.